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Francis Bacon (1561-1626) was a genuine midwife of modernity. He was one of the first thinkers to visualize a future which would be guided by a cooperative science-based vision of bettering human welfare. In this the first critical edition of his greatest philosophical work since the nineteenth-century, we find facing-page Latin translations and a thorough and detailed Introduction to the text. ... Read more

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This work provides an original account of Francis Bacon's conception of natural inquiry.Pérez-Ramos sets Bacon in an epistemological tradition that postulates an intimate relation between objects of cognition and objects of construction, and regards the human knower as, fundamentally, a maker.By exploring the background to this tradition, and contrasting the responses of major philosophers of the 17th century with Bacon's own, the book charts Bacon's contribution to the modern philosophy of science. ... Read more

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No artist's studio rivals Francis Bacon's in terms of sheer iconic pungency. The artist's furious hurricanes of creativity were writ large upon its walls, scattered across its floors in a sea of paint pots, brushes, discarded canvases and much-abused source and reference materials, all of which seemed to bespeak Bacon's chaotically rigorous processes: bodybuilding snaps, reproductions of Muybridge time-lapse sequences, photo-booth self-portraits, magazine cuttings, tattered monographs, medical textbooks with images of unusual and often horrific wounds and diseases, and countless photos of friends such as Lucian Freud, John Deakin, Isabel Rawsthorne, Muriel Belcher and George Dyer, from which the artist built his portraits of them. Bacon's exceptional eloquence on the subject of his painting process, taken in combination with the iconicity and visual impact of his studio (now preserved at the Hugh Lane Municipal Gallery at the Dublin City Gallery), enables his admirers to envisage something of how his paintings were made. In celebration of the centenary of Bacon's birth, and chiming with an exhibition at the Dublin City Gallery, A Terrible Beauty excavates Bacon's studio to reveal the methods, materials and processes through which Bacon arrived at his paintings. Drawing on the Hugh Lane's vast archive of materials, it gathers new scholarship and insights from Rebecca Daniels, Barbara Dawson, Marcel Fincke, Martin Harrison, Jessica O'Donnell, Joanna Shepard and Logan Sisley, and is a major publication for Bacon fans and scholars alike. ... Read more

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Published for the exhibition in Milan between March 4th and June 29th, 2008, this catalog offers a selection of approximately sixty works by Bacon. The collection spans his works from his first paintings in the 1930s, which reveal how early he was attracted to a figure’s deformation and ambiguity, to his late triptychs, in which the artist’s existential torment seems to move towards a suffered serenity. This publication includes important contributions from leading international scholars as well as technical information on all the exhibition works. Artworks are gathered from such prestigious museums as the Centre Pompidou in Paris, the Neue Nationalgalerie in Berlin, the Kunsthaus in Zurich, the Israel Museum in Jerusalem, the Birmingham Museum, the Sara Hilden Museum in Tampere, the Fondazione Beyeler in Basel, the Museo de Arte Contemporanea in Caracas, the Toyota Municipal Museum in Aichi, and the National Gallery of Australia in Canberra. The publication also includes a series of documents—drawings, photographs, and works on paper such as collages and retouched photographs—from the Dublin City Gallery. ... Read more

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The Definitive Francis Bacon Anthology
Francis Bacon remains one of the more fascinating artists of our time, and while many important, elegant, erudite and valuable books have been written about this enigmatic man, this Anthology simply titled BACON, outshines them all. Yes, it is essentially a museum catalogue for a major exhibition in Milan in 2008, but it is far more than a competent catalogue.

There is little about Francis Bacon that has not been addressed in previous books, at times very well indeed, so the reader should not expect to uncover much new imagery here. What makes this book so very impressive is the quality: the four essays investigating Bacon's past, his world views, his personal life, his impact on 20th century art as written by Fabrice Hergott, Christoph Heinrich, Jean Louis Schefer, and editor Rudy Chiappini are immensely readable and learned; the uncovering of the valuable secrets of Bacon's Dublin Studio by Barbara Dawson, the section of works on paper by Luciano Caprile in addition to the chronology constructed by Gaia Regazzoni are stylish and accurate: the quality of reproductions of the paintings in the book are some of the richest four color separation images available.

Many paintings illustrated in this anthology that are less well known to the general public than the famous triptychs and the Pope series, and to see these lesser known works in such vivid color is remarkable. For this reader the collection of drawings and photomontages that served as the nidus for Bacon's imagination and resultant paintings is the best available and these are presented in such a way that Bacon's art is more approachable than other books have attempted. Recommended without reservation, no matter how many other volumes about this important artist are in the library!Grady Harp, January 09

Flesh and chaos are the reality of our existence
This book is the catalogue for a recent Bacon exhibition held at the Palazzo Reale in Milan, Italy.

It is divided into four initial essays, the first studying the force and energy that exhude from Bacon's paintings (the violent presence of the flesh, the obsession with life, "the drama of the existencial experience"), the second dwelling on Bacon's creative process, the sources and references he used (contrary to what was formerly believed and to what the artist wanted us to believe, he left little space to chance in his works), the third focusing on his small portraits as embodiements of Bacon's ideas of what art should be (key words here are "energy" and "force")and the fourth attempting an explanation of what these paintings, through their violence and crudeness, represent (what kind of reality, beyond the mere dissolving image of the human body). This last chapter is buttressed by many quotations from Bacon's famous interviews with David Sylvester where he stresses the crude truth that, above all, the human body is "meat, a river of flesh".

Then comes the main asset of this book: the reproductions of the works. I own more than a dozen books on Bacon and, in my opinion, this one is the best as far as the quality of reproductions is concerned. They are simply outstanding and cannot be more faithful to the originals. All in full color (which is crucial when you are dealing with Bacon, who was one of the greatest colorists in XXth century art)they are also numerous.

The last part of the book is especially interesting in that it focuses on Bacon's studio (faithfully reconstituted at Dublin City Gallery the Hugh Lane in Ireland) and everything that was found in it after his death. Photos of the studio and reproductions of sketches, torn photographs, well-thumbed books and odds and ends that used to strew the studio floor are especially revealing of the importance of what the artist called "the chaos" in his creative process.

A high-quality book which I strongly recommend. ... Read more

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Originally published in 1968. This volume discusses Francis Bacon’s thought and work in the context of the European cultural environment that influenced Bacon’s philosophy and was in turn influenced by it. It examines the influence of magical and alchemical traditions on Bacon and his opposition to these traditions, as well as illustrating the naturalist, materialist and ethico-political patterns in Bacon’s allegorical interpretations of fables.

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Francis Bacon - a leading figure in the history of science - never made a major discovery, provided a lasting explanation of any physical phenomena or revealed any hidden laws of nature. How then can he rank as he does alongside Newton? Bacon was the first major thinker to describe how science should be done, and to explain why. Scientific knowledge should not be gathered for its own sake but for practical benefit to mankind. And Bacon promoted experimentation, coming to outline and define the rigorous procedures of the 'scientific method' that today from the very bedrock of modern scientific progress. John Henry gives a dramatic account of the background to Bacon's innovations and the sometimes unconventional sources for his ideas. Why was he was so concerned to revolutionize the attitude to scientific knowledge - and why do his ideas for reform still resonate today? ... Read more

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Provocative interpretations and thought-provoking book

Knowledge is Power by John Henry (Cambridge, England: Icon Books, 2002).

This short, quick read attempts to put into context Francis Bacon's contribution to and status in Empiricism (and modern science).

Henry notes that Bacon was the first great advocate of the use of empirical investigation as a means to gain knowledge, as well as an advocate of the goal of increasing knowledge for the sake of benefitting the human race.

Henry believes that Bacon's motivation was a religious one.He argues that Bacon saw the increase of knowledge as a way to hasten the Millennium (or second coming of Christ).He argues that Bacon felt the Aristotelian tradition, embraced since the Middle Ages by the Catholic Church, and based on non-empirical, deductive reasoning, was a dead end as far as the quest for new knowledge goes.

He argues that Bacon felt that he could provide a new, better approach to advancing knowledge by adapting certain aspects of the empirical approach used by "magicians" and witches.

Henry admonishes the reader (and other historians) repeatedly to view Bacon in the context of the time and not with our current cultural views and biases.Henry says that for the most part magic in the 16th and 17th centuries was about understanding the effects of nature (e.g., potions that ameliorate or create some effect).Henry said that magical knowledge was gained in part by experiment, though not systematic experiment, and certainly not experiment with a larger social purpose.Henry asserts that that Bacon was familiar with the magical tradition and the writings of major contemporary figures in that tradition.

Henry noted that Bacon never completed his work elucidating his new approach (various pieces, outlines and examples of the approach were published).Further, Henry emphasized that Bacon contributed no significant new insights using his empirical approach, and was not able to completely articulate how his approach should work.He said that it is difficult to identify any philosopher (scientist) who strictly followed Bacon's suggested methods.

Henry argues that Bacon's real fame rests on the political situation of the times.Henry believes that in the time of the Restoration in England (1660-ish), Philosophy was distrusted, thought to be a tool of the Catholic church and of extreme religious sects.He thinks that Bacon's ideas (he was long-dead by this time) offered a politically attractive way for philosophers of the time to salvage or restore their status by proclaiming their Empiricist approach as objective, non-partisan information gathering intended to benefit all people. Henry thus claims that Bacon's chief contribution is to the rhetoric of science.

This is an interesting and somewhat thought-provoking book.The author has chosen a highly accessible, informal, non-academic style.In fact, there were several times when I wished Henry had included more direct quotes and fewer assertions about what Locke was thinking. ... Read more

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The painting of Francis Bacon (1909-1992) defines the shattered self-image of Europe in the aftermath of the Second World War, and his wracked human figures are now basic to the twentieth century's visual lexicon. Clearing away all moral scaffolding, Bacon made room for what he called "the brutality of fact" to implode onto his canvases, paring back his subjects to animal function and bloodlust. In Bacon the figure is almost always isolated and pitched against an unforgiving interior lit only by a bare light bulb (one could write an interesting history of the light bulb in art, tracking its trajectory from, say, Van Gogh to Vuillard's lamplight, to the desolate hanging bulbs of Bacon and Philip Guston). Francis Bacon had few better critics of his work than himself--as witnessed in this superb statement of intent to David Sylvester: "What I want to do is distort the thing far beyond the appearance, but in the distortion to bring it back to a recording of the appearance." But one of the few writers whose sensibility he trusted was the French author Michel Leiris. Leiris shared Bacon's feel for nerve-end acuity in art, as his great autobiography Manhood attests, and with Bacon's sanction, wrote the essay for Poligrafa's landmark monograph of 1987, which also included a selection of 240 key paintings made by Bacon himself. That volume, an essential text for Bacon fans and scholars, is here revised and reprinted for the first time. ... Read more

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Francis Bacon, full face and in profile
Though many reviewers and critics of this new edition of a 1983 book published in Spanish by the same name and by the same author are angry with the presentation of the Bacon paintings included, the simple fact that Michel Leiris' fine essay on Bacon, possibly the finest ever written, is once again available to the public more than makes up for the quality of the reproductions of the art.Leiris was in many ways Bacon's confidant, a man and a writer with whom Bacon shared his inner most feelings and life and stimuli for the paintings he created.Leiris writes with a quiet authority, with an immensely readable style, and offers more information about the real Francis Bacon than others - and the list of Bacon authorities grows all the time.

In this hardcover edition there is a quotation as a frontispiece that bears repeating.Georg Büchner: 'In everything I demand that there should be life, the possibility of existence, and then all is well; we are not then called upon to ask whether the work is beautiful or ugly.The feeling that what has been created has life comes before either consideration and is the only criterion in matters of art.'This, from the creator of 'Woyzeck'.After Leiris elegant essay the book contains a large number of Bacon's canvases.Even with less than perfect reproduction these works seem to take on new meaning, reflecting the information in Leiris' words.

This particular reincarnation of the 1983 book includes a full chronology of Bacon's life, a list of all the interviews recorded and a very complete bibliography that includes catalogues from exhibitions and an updated listing of all the public collections of the artist's works.Despite the flaws of production this book is well worth owning, especially since the Leiris essay is not otherwise available.Grady Harp, July 09

this book should be recalled
I absolutely agree with Kevin J. Mcfarland's comment: the reproductions in this book are of a very shoddy quality. A lot - not all of them but probably more than half - are out of focus (they honestly seem like blown-up copies of the images in the original). The color is also quite bad. Stay away from this book unless you're buying it for the essay. And publisher - this is an embarrassment.

Get the original folks!
Yes its true, this a reprint of a much more impressive book....and without reservation get that one, not this foggy weak shadow of the original.When I opened the package containing this book I was excited about a supposed new and improved Bacon book , minutes later the book was back in the package and returned. This reprint is NOT AS GOOD AS ITS ORIGINAL, I would say the print job is quite muddy compared to the 1983 version...so buy that one, it is still available...this is solid advice from a serious Bacon enthusiast, heed it .

A different slant
John Russell wrote this "biography" while Francis Bacon was very much alive and tends to emphasize the influences on Bacon's work more from an environmental standpoint than an art historian view.But to jump into Bacon's raucous life "in medias res" is a gift that now can be savoured, like picking the grapes off the vines that in years to come will become a fine vintage wine.A diversion, and only in black and white reproductions, but a rather important comment in retrospect.

Seek this Bacon volume!
This book on Francis Bacon is out of print but the good people at Amazon.com can help you find it.And if you love Francis Bacon then this book is a MUST for your library. Well written and gorgeous to view, this book more than most shows the less known works of the British genius of psychologically laden painting.The handsome book was a catalogue for the Smithsonian Institution exhibition in 1989 and 1990, before Bacon died. As for a collection of the master's best, look no further. ... Read more

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Beautiful images!
I saw the Bacon's retrospective at the Met this summer and the prints in this monograph are exquisite! As a visual artist, I find that art books with good reproductions are so inspirational.
I suppose one disadvantage is that the work represented in this book is from a more limited time frame. But the paintings reproduced are comprehensive of the 50s and they are incredibly beautiful. Deep, dark portraiture and where there is color, it's always vivid and brilliant. The earlier investigations of the smeared, moving faces, the Popes and the abstracted figures are well documented in this monograph. It's a beautiful book and well worth the price.

Always interesting....
There is really not much to the book to be honest. There are about 30 paintings decently reproduced -- all of them very interesting -- but without much commentary except for a few. (Though I quickly discovered Bacon's paintings are fun to psychoanalyze for yourself.)It provided a short interesting biography that I told my mother to read which afterward she stated,"he has a disease for which there is no name..." -- and I agreed. Finally, the book ends with some of Bacon's letters.

Francis Bacon: The Formative Years
The shelves in the art section of bookstores, public and private libraries contain many publications about the important 20th Century figurative artist Francis Bacon: one would think there was little left to be said about the bizarre genius who influenced so many artists and thinkers.But this new volume by long admired proponent of Francis Bacon's work and historical significance, Michael Peppiatt, sheds even more light on how Bacon arrived at the point of creating such disturbing and magnificently painted works.

Born in 1909 Francis Bacon did not become a serious artist until the mid 1930s, electing to travel to Berlin and Paris and other magnetic hubs plying his trade as a hustler and effete and along the way making significant statements in the decorative arts and design.Peppiatt takes us from the late 1940s when Bacon's few paintings were of animal life and objects of design elements into the period of the 1950s when he explored the figure, developed his 'caged figure' theme and stretched his portraiture to extremes beyond which few other artists have dared go.It is the combination of history, drawings, previously unpublished reproductions of some paintings, photographs, and a collection of letters Bacon wrote to various people that Peppiatt writes with such mastery of description of Bacon's oeuvre that makes this volume so readable and memorable.

The well designed and produced book served as a catalog for a traveling exhibition of the works described in the book.It is not meant to be a definitive total biography of the artist: Peppiatt's 1996 'Francis Bacon: Anatomy of an Enigma' is the primer on the artist's life and work.But it is in closer studies such as this book covers that we discover more of the secrets and motivations that have established Francis Bacon as the important artist he became.Highly recommended.Grady Harp, September 07

The man behind the artist
This is the catalogue for a traveling exhibition (England and the U.S.)focusing on a crucial decade in Bacon's art, when he really revealed himself as a master, transcending the tradition of figurative painting. Many rarely seen works are illustrated (e.g. the portraits of the Sainsburies, one of the artist's first patrons). The book ends with a review of the letters written by Bacon to his first dealer and to his patrons, moving letters where he often asks for money loans, sometimes in a humble and desperate tone that betrays the mundane behind the genius. A valuable addition to the literature on Bacon. ... Read more

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This work elucidates the values and meanings that can be ascribed to Bacon's work, and discusses criticisms of Bacon by distinguished critics and philosophers. ... Read more

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This work elucidates the values and meanings that can be ascribed to Bacon's work, and discusses criticisms of Bacon by distinguished critics and philosophers. ... Read more

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Beautiful images!
I saw the Bacon's retrospective at the Met this summer and the prints in this monograph are exquisite! As a visual artist, I find that art books with good reproductions are so inspirational.
I suppose one disadvantage is that the work represented in this book is from a more limited time frame. But the paintings reproduced are comprehensive of the 50s and they are incredibly beautiful. Deep, dark portraiture and where there is color, it's always vivid and brilliant. The earlier investigations of the smeared, moving faces, the Popes and the abstracted figures are well documented in this monograph. It's a beautiful book and well worth the price.

Always interesting....
There is really not much to the book to be honest. There are about 30 paintings decently reproduced -- all of them very interesting -- but without much commentary except for a few. (Though I quickly discovered Bacon's paintings are fun to psychoanalyze for yourself.)It provided a short interesting biography that I told my mother to read which afterward she stated,"he has a disease for which there is no name..." -- and I agreed. Finally, the book ends with some of Bacon's letters.

Francis Bacon: The Formative Years
The shelves in the art section of bookstores, public and private libraries contain many publications about the important 20th Century figurative artist Francis Bacon: one would think there was little left to be said about the bizarre genius who influenced so many artists and thinkers.But this new volume by long admired proponent of Francis Bacon's work and historical significance, Michael Peppiatt, sheds even more light on how Bacon arrived at the point of creating such disturbing and magnificently painted works.

Born in 1909 Francis Bacon did not become a serious artist until the mid 1930s, electing to travel to Berlin and Paris and other magnetic hubs plying his trade as a hustler and effete and along the way making significant statements in the decorative arts and design.Peppiatt takes us from the late 1940s when Bacon's few paintings were of animal life and objects of design elements into the period of the 1950s when he explored the figure, developed his 'caged figure' theme and stretched his portraiture to extremes beyond which few other artists have dared go.It is the combination of history, drawings, previously unpublished reproductions of some paintings, photographs, and a collection of letters Bacon wrote to various people that Peppiatt writes with such mastery of description of Bacon's oeuvre that makes this volume so readable and memorable.

The well designed and produced book served as a catalog for a traveling exhibition of the works described in the book.It is not meant to be a definitive total biography of the artist: Peppiatt's 1996 'Francis Bacon: Anatomy of an Enigma' is the primer on the artist's life and work.But it is in closer studies such as this book covers that we discover more of the secrets and motivations that have established Francis Bacon as the important artist he became.Highly recommended.Grady Harp, September 07

The man behind the artist
This is the catalogue for a traveling exhibition (England and the U.S.)focusing on a crucial decade in Bacon's art, when he really revealed himself as a master, transcending the tradition of figurative painting. Many rarely seen works are illustrated (e.g. the portraits of the Sainsburies, one of the artist's first patrons). The book ends with a review of the letters written by Bacon to his first dealer and to his patrons, moving letters where he often asks for money loans, sometimes in a humble and desperate tone that betrays the mundane behind the genius. A valuable addition to the literature on Bacon. ... Read more

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An engaging biography of lawyer, writer, and philosopher Sir Francis Bacon.

"All rising to great place is by a winding stair," wrote Sir Francis Bacon. It wasn’t until he was forty-five that Bacon’s feet found the first step on that staircase, when King James I made him Solicitor-General, from where he rose through the ranks to become Lord Chancellor. Many accounts of the life of Sir Francis Bacon have been written for scholars, but du Maurier’s aim was to paint a vivid portrait of this remarkable man for the common reader. In The Winding Stair, she illuminates the considerable achievements of this Renaissance man: as a writer, lawyer, philosopher, scientist, and politician.

Dame Daphne du Maurier (1907–1989) wrote more than 25 acclaimed novels, short stories, and plays, including Rebecca and The House on the Strand. She was also a passionate and skillful biographer. Now, her finest biographical works are being reissued in the distinguished Virago Modern Classics series. ... Read more

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Part of the Shakesperian writing team?
Yes, the novelist who gave us Hitchcock's "Jamaica Inn," "Rebecca," and "The Birds," was also a historian, especially anything that had to do with her own family and her own "country," southwest England.

"The Winding Stair" begins where "Golden Lads" ends. It begins with Francis at age 40, on the death of his brother.

The title comes from the quote that one's ascent in life is like a winding stair, taking one step at a time.

Easy to read, and fills in the gaps of Francis Bacon's life. But the best part of this is the fact that it was written by a celebrity in her own right: Daphne du Maurier. ... Read more

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This entirely new classroom edition of Francis Bacon's great work of 1620, a founding document of empiricism and the scientific method, contains a new introduction and notes by translators/editors Urbach and Gibson. Index. ... Read more

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Best available edition of this classic text
Good translation of the original Latin by the great "renaissance man" and important English writer, thinker, statesman Sir Francis Bacon, . This is a seminal work in the origin of modern, empirical science. Scholars of renaissance culture will also find it valuable. Bacon's outline of the "idols" of thought (ways of thinking) that obscure truth is classic and still relevant. Bacon's "novum organum" or new science also includes perhaps the first description of the modern scientific method; formulate a hypothesis based on known data and then test it against the facts. Essential.

A gem!
Though somewhat obscure, this book should be more widely known and read. Very enlightening and well ahead of it's time. Terrific, readable translation. You'll never look at the world again in the same way! ... Read more

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This is an OCR edition without illustrations or index. It may have numerous typos or missing text. However, purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original rare book from GeneralBooksClub.com. You can also preview excerpts from the book there. Purchasers are also entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books Club where they can select from more than a million books without charge. Original Published by: Arthur L. Humphreys in 1900 in 289 pages; Subjects: Art / General; Art / History / General; Art / European; Art / History / Modern (late 19th Century to 1945); Art / Individual Artist; Art / Techniques / Painting; ... Read more

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Colors a bit off, but good overall
As in all titles in the Great Modern Masters series published by Abrams: Colors are not vibrant, often with a brownish tint or/and too dark, and their accuracy is just O.K. There are 64 pages of a good size 9.5x12 inches (24x30.5 cm). It begins with an introduction with 5-6 small b&w pictures on 2 pages, which is followed by a biography with 5-6 small b&w pictures on 2 next pages. The rest is dedicated to good size over 60 full color plates divided into chapters dedicated to artist's carrier periods, style directions, or themes, each described by 12-16 lines of text. The series is inferior to the same size paperback series published by Taschen in 1990s, but superior to Taschen's series of smaller sizes published latter. Unfortunately, the Taschen series does not cover Bacon, Botero, Brancusi, Braque, Calder, de Chirico, Johns, Kokoschka, Leger, Man Ray, Malevich, Modigliani, and Rouault this series does. ... Read more

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Commemorating the 400th anniversary of the publication of Francis Bacon's Advancement of Learning (1605), this collection examines Bacon's recasting of proto-scientific philosophies and practices into early modern discourses of knowledge. Like Bacon, all of the contributors to this volume confront an essential question: how to integrate intellectual traditions with emergent knowledges to forge new intellectual futures. The volume's main theme is Bacon's core interest in identifying and conceptualizing coherent intellectual disciplines, including the central question of whether Bacon succeeded in creating unified discourses about learning. Bacon's interests in natural philosophy, politics, ethics, law, medicine, religion, neoplatonic magic, technology and humanistic learning are here mirrored in the contributors' varied intellectual backgrounds and diverse approaches to Bacon's thought. ... Read more

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This ambitious and important book provides the first truly general account of Francis Bacon as a philosopher.It explores in detail how and why Bacon attempted to transform the largely esoteric discipline of natural philosophy into a public practice through a program in which practical science provided a model that inspired many from the 17th to the 20th centuries. This book will be recognized as a major contribution to Baconian scholarship of special interest to historians of early modern philosophy, science, and ideas. ... Read more

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* Who was Francis Bacon, a genius of modern times?

* Why did he often use cyptic or 'secret' ways of communicating in his writings?

*Was he also a Master of Hermetic Wisdom?If so, how do we know this?

*Are we currently living in the beginning of Bacon's long-awaited 'New Age'?

Francis Bacon, the acclaimed but hidden 'chief' who led the wits and poets in Elizabethan and Jacobean England during the period that saw some of the greatest masterpieces of English literature created, is now revealed.For the first time, readers will see his many dimensions, how Bacon deliberately followed the path of the ancients, using drama, certain codes and ciphers, to lead people to self-knowledge and enlightenment --a New Age.Through special techniques, cryptic codes and ciphers, we learn more about the ancient wisdom embedded in his works and how we -- today -- may well be living on the cusp of the 'New Age' of enlightenment that Bacon envisioned long ago.

Bacon and the Pursuit of truth:

Bacon's work is founded on the perennial wisdom underlying the Bible.His work is known as THE SIX DAY'S WORK (of creation) guiding the seeker towards peace, prosperity and illumination based on love, understanding and service.

Bacon and Enlightenment:

This illumination or light is the wisdom of ages, synthesised from many sources into books, music, drama nad art by a group led by Sir Francis Bacon.

Baconand the Shakespeare plays

These were written as working examples forming part of Bacon's method for the discovery of truth.

Bacon and Discovery:

In this book, author and readers work together to explore the 'treasure trail' of clues that Bacon and his Rosicrucian group left in order that we, too, may learn, practice and develop the work even further, in the early 21st century. ... Read more