Francis Bacon

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• Disjecta: This weeks links

  
  A Piece of Monologue: The Online Journal of Rhys Tranter — Authority: 132
  (Image: Francis Bacon, Triptych, May-June, 1973) Literature: J. G. Ballard : NPR publishes an excerpt from the Complete Stories Don DeLillo : A short story in the New Yorker , Midnight in Dostoyevsky Paul Auster : FlavorWire on Paul Austers Invisible Patricia Highsmith : Slavoj Žižek on Patricia ...
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• Reheated Bacon

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 988
  White Cube Masons Yard and Hoxton Square, London What can a portrait do to its subject, beyond the usual act of depiction? The question is unexpectedly raised in Damien Hirsts new two-site show. Among the many paintings of carrion crows, skulls, knives, empty pill bottles, corpses and other mortal intimations is a ...
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• Bacon Agonistes

  
  { feuilleton } — Authority: 497
  Bacon Agonistes | John Richardson on Francis Bacon.
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• Demons and beefcake – the other side of Francis Bacon

  
  { feuilleton } — Authority: 497
  Demons and beefcake – the other side of Francis Bacon
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• Old queens, Krays and champagne

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 988
  "In 1950, Bacons studio would become the focus of attention for a three-day celebration that, in retrospect, was the coming-out party for a new variety of bohemia. In its excess it could also be seen as Bacons debut as a star. The occasion was the wedding of his close friend Ann Dunn … Francis painted the ...
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• The other side of Francis Bacon

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 988
  The territories of Francis Bacons soul have been explored widely; they have been the subject of a film, books and endless speculation. But the senior art historian John Richardson – who, at 85, is working on the last volume of his acclaimed biography of Picasso, and who knew Bacon from his 20s – has now laid down ...
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• Sado-masochism and stolen shoe polish: Francis Bacons legacy revisited

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 988
  Art historian John Richardsons revelations on the troubled artist he knew as a young man Francis Bacons was a life lived to extravagant extremes. His drunken excesses in the Colony Room Club in Soho; his carnivalesque, ruinous generosity; the formative occasion on which, as a teenager, his father found him wearing ...
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• Disjecta: This weeks links

  
  A Piece of Monologue: The Online Journal of Rhys Tranter — Authority: 132
  (Herbert Bayer’s design for a cinema. 1924–25. Image via Design Observer ) Literature: Martin Amis on Vladimir Nabokov William S. Burroughs : Charles Bukowski, William Burroughs, and the Computer Paul Auster: The Rumpus interview with Paul Auster Will Self : Will Selfs introduction to ...
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• Essay: On Atheism by Francis Bacon

  
  Truthbomb Apologetics — Authority: 414
  Essay excerpt: "I HAD rather believe all the fables in the Legend, and the Talmud, and the Alcoran, than that this universal frame is without a mind. And therefore, God never wrought miracle, to convince atheism, because his ordinary works convince it. It is true, that a little philosophy inclineth man’s mind to ...
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• Sermon: The Problem Of King Jesus

  
  Big Circumstance — Authority: 456
  John 18:33-37 ‘What is truth? said jesting Pilate; and would not stay for an answer.’ Many of us think of Francis Bacon’s famous words when we read this account of Jesus before Pilate. But we have a problem: the Lectionary omits verse 38 where Pilate says, ‘What is truth?’ for reasons that are beyond ...
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• Steve Ditko’s ‘The Ever Unreachable’

  
  Big Hollywood — Authority: 795
  For comic book readers, Steve Ditko is a name to be reckoned with. In a career spanning more than five decades, Ditko has drawn countless pages in every genre for every major publisher. Ditko has created scores of original characters and is probably best known for co-creating The Amazing Spider-Man. Ditko is also ...
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• Prelude II – Of Knowledge and Ignorance

  
  Eternity in an Hour — Authority: 128
  The Fox and the Grapes by Milo WinterThe Fox and the GrapesA famished fox crept into a vineyard where ripe, luscious grapes were draped high upon arbors in a most tempting display. In his effort to win a juicy price, the fox jumped and sprang many times but failed in all his attempts. When he [...]
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• Joe Becker

  
  Lost At E Minor: For creative people — Authority: 610
  Joe Becker sites Baroque and Rococo painting as primary influences on his work, but the specters of more recent artists — Francis Bacon and Ivan Albright most prominently — also peer out from his grotesque images. Becker levels less-than-subtle indictments of man’s gluttony, violence, cruelty, and selfishness ...
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• Anyone can be Rembrandt

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 988
  Since he made his name in the early 90s, Damien Hirst has been less an artist than head of a multinational. In the process, hes earned an absolute fortune, if not critical respect. But why should he care? Damien Hirst stares into his portrait of a skull. This is the new Damien Hirst – Hirst the solitary painter ...
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• A detour to the world of art

  
  PassionforCinema.com — Authority: 144
  We despise thought, even if it is the only gift God gave us. While being beautiful, it does take away our sleep. After a hard day’s work, we need to relax, put our minds to rest. So we stop thinking. We hate anything that provokes thought. Be it cinema, telly, books or music. We want ‘thought-free’ stuff, ...
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• Caravaggio/Bacon Exhibition @ Galleria Borghese, Rome

  
  Les cahiers d'Alain Truong — Authority: 155
  Michelangelo Merisi called Caravaggio, David with the Head of Goliath (1609-10) oil on canvas cm. 125x101. Galleria Borghese, Rome ROME (REUTERS).- Portraits by Italian master Caravaggio and Irish-born 20th-century painter Francis Bacon stand side-by-side in new exhibition connecting their tormented views of ...
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• J. G. Ballard on Blue Velvet

  
  A Piece of Monologue: The Online Journal of Rhys Tranter — Authority: 132
  British author J. G. Ballard on David Lynchs Blue Velvet  (originally published in Time Out  in 1993): Blue Velvet is, for me, the best film of the 1980s - surreal, voyeuristic, subversive and even a little corrupt in its manipulation of the audience. In short, the perfect dish for the jaded palates of the ...
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• Voynichese = Biliteral Cipher?

  
  Cipher Mysteries — Authority: 122
  I’ve had a few recent emails from historical code-breaker Tony Gaffney concerning the Voynich Manuscript, to say that he has been hard at work examining whether Voynichese might in fact be an example of an early Baconian biliteral cipher . This is a method Francis Bacon invented of hiding messages inside other ...
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• Knowledge, Love, and Civilization

  
  Quiddity — Authority: 465
  Francis Bacon said “Knowledge is power,” and I know of no record of him ever apologizing. What sort of disposition would lead a person to saying such a thing. It’s not as if people prior to Bacon did not realize that knowledge gave its possessor power. But they had good manners and higher values, so they ...
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• Bubbly @ Belthazar

  
  Pendock Uncorked — Authority: 121
  What better way to celebrate the end of the recession than with oysters and bubbly (both French and Méthode Cap Classique) at Belthazar at the Cape Town Waterfront yesterday. As mine host Jonathan Steyn insisted in his yoga gear “Champagne for my real friends, real pain for my sham friends” quoting the late ...
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