Exhibition: Francis Bacon: Invisible Rooms

Francis Bacon and his invisible rooms: human emotions so felt but not so easily seen

Francis Bacon: Invisible Rooms (Tate Liverpool 18 May – 18 September 2016) is the first dedicated exhibition to survey an underexplored yet significant element of Bacon’s work, an artist internationally regarded as Britain’s greatest painter of the last century and the biggest one after Turner. This exhibition helps in the re-assessment of his works in the light of the new research that has eme...

Francis Bacon and socialized science

Psychopathology in Art—Meditation on Francis Bacon

the Friends of Bristol Art Gallery to Sutton Place, that magnificent Tudor Mansion, formerly the home of the American millionaire oil magnate and art collector, J. Paul Getty. It is now leased by another American art collector, Mr Stanley J. Seeger and houses his collection of pictures by contemporary artists. Occupying pride of place in the Great Hall is a Triptych by Francis Bacon. From a dis...

Francis Bacon and the style of science

There is a very large literature on Bacon and his proposals for scientific enquiry, but so far no one has studied carefully his style of writing, his method of communicating upon which he laid so much emphasis. Professor Stephens here presents and analyses in four chapters the style that Bacon found appropriate for scholarly and scientific writing. First he deals with the problems facing Bacon,...

Francis Bacon. Discovery and the art of discourse

This anthology is most welcome and can be enthusiastically recommended to those who wish to know more ofJapanese science in order to achieve a more complete, international coverage of the history of science. Moreover and more importantly, the opportunity of observing a different approach to science, whereby problems that also exercise the West are tackled from a different angle, is of great sig...