The Violent Focus of Francis Bacon
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Francis Bacon's Lebensfeld
The unique force and violence of Francis Bacon's paintings really derive, at least in part, from a certain kind of acetic lebensfeld that he cultivated. He basically locked himself into this otherwise close circuit of his own reflections. The thing I was observing in his life is that he would write handwritten notes to himself about what he should be thinking about. And by the way, any of the facts that I talk about here are from this book. So there's the citation.
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