培根和心灵通过探索他的动机揭示了弗朗西斯培根的艺术，并通过这样做开辟了理解他的绘画的新方法。它包括各自学科的**学者的五篇论文，由培根的作品贯穿始终。克里斯托弗•巴克洛（Christopher Bucklow）令人信服地认为培根并没有描绘他的主题的现实，而是描述了他的现实 - 在他的记忆中，在他的感性中，以及在他的感觉和思想的私人世界中。史蒂文•贾隆的文章质疑培根习惯性语言的心理暗示，他对“伤口”，脆弱性和神经系统的迷恋。 Darian Leader的文章“培根与身体”展示了他对艺术家的最新鲜见解。 John Onians的“Francis Bacon：A Neuroarthistory”的焦点是培根无意识的心理过程对他的绘画创作的影响。 “弗朗西斯培根的'视觉冲击'：神经美学中的一篇文章”是一部新编辑的，现在已经完全展示了Semir Zeki的一篇文章的重新演示，以前只能作为在线学术论文访问。

Bacon and the Mind sheds light on Francis Bacon’s art by exploring his motivations, and in so doing opens up new ways of understanding his paintings. It comprises five essays by prominent scholars in their respective disciplines, illustrated throughout by Bacon’s works. Christopher Bucklow argues compellingly that Bacon does not depict the reality of his subjects, but rather their reality for him―in his memory, in his sensibility, and in his private world of sensations and ideas. Steven Jaron’s essay questions the psychological implications of Bacon’s habitual language, his obsession with “the wound,” vulnerability, and the nervous system. Darian Leader’s essay “Bacon and the Body,” presents the latest of his fresh and stimulating insights into the artist. The focus in John Onians’s “Francis Bacon: A Neuroarthistory” is the effect of Bacon’s unconscious mental processes in the creation of his paintings. “The ‘Visual Shock’ of Francis Bacon: An Essay in Neuroaesthetics” is a newly edited and now fully illustrated re-

presentation of an article by Semir Zeki, previously accessible only as an online academic paper.