Seeing and Seen: Acts of the Voyeur in the Paintings of Francis Bacon

Abstract

There are a number of characters in Bacon\u27s paintings who seem strangely out of place, peeking in on intimate moments and sometimes turning their attention to us, the spectator of the works. These figures are the more literal representatives of a theme that runs throughout Bacon\u27s work, namely that of the voyeur. My research looks at the numerous perspectives of the voyeur presented by Bacon in an attempt to better understand its rationale in his artistic production

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