Bacon and the Mind: Art, Neuroscience and Psychology (Francis Bacon Studies)

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About the Author Martin Harrison is the author of In Camera: Francis Bacon and is the editor of the forthcoming Francis Bacon Catalogue Raisonne, a project with which Rebecca Daniels is also closely involved. They live in England.Christopher Bucklow is a photographer, sculptor and painter. He was a curator at the Victoria and Albert Museum from 1978 to 1986, and has written on a very broad range of art, notably including What is in the Dwat: The Universe of Guston’s Final Decade, 2007. Dr Steven Jaron practices as a clinical psychologist and psychoanalyst in the Department of Internal Medicine and Center for Clinical Investigation, Centre Hospitalier National d’Ophtalmologie des Quinze-Vingts, Paris. His publications include a celebrated study of the Jewish poet, Edmond Jabes: The Hazard of Exile, 2003.Darian Leader is Honorary Visiting Professor in Psychoanalysis at Roehampton University. President of the College of Psychoanalysts and a Trustee of the Freud Museum, he has also written on art topics for more than twenty years, including the book Stealing the Mona Lisa: What Art Stops us from Seeing, 2002. John Onians is Emeritus Professor of World Art at the University of East Anglia. He has recently sought to establish neuroarthistory as a discipline with a distinct set of methodologies. In 2016 he published European Art: A Neuroarthistory. Semir Zeki, FMedSci, FRS, is Professor of Neuroaesthetics at University College, London. His book Splendors and Miseries of the Brain: Love, Creativity and the Quest for Human Happiness, was published in 2008. Read more