这本有趣，插图精美的关于20世纪最伟大的画家之一弗朗西斯•培根（Francis Bacon）作品的书籍深入研究了他的标志性主题：被囚禁在幽灵框架中的人物。本书结合了法国哲学家吉勒•德勒兹（Gilles Deleuze）对培根作品的开创性批评中《感觉逻辑》（The Logic of Sensation）的见解，突显了培根将空间方法视为其工作的决定性力量之一。通过用几乎看不见的立方体或椭圆形的笼子组织作品的空间和戏剧性结构，他的人物被困在一种看不见的房间里。这种局限感给观看者带来了直接的，令人不安的印象，并进一步强调了画家的黑暗视觉。本书收录了40幅大型油画的精美复制品，包括《肖像研究》（1952年），《黑猩猩》（1955年），《男性后背三项研究》（1970年）和《沙丘》（1983年）以及精选的很少展出的纸上作品。本书还包含一系列文章，探讨了培根近50年使用隔离结构的变化范围，以及他的绘画技术和构图的本质。

This fascinating and beautifully illustrated book on the work of Francis Bacon, one of the 20th century s greatest painters, takes an in-depth look at his trademark motif of figures imprisoned within ghostly frames. Arguably one of the most influential and original painters of the 20th century, Francis Bacon painted haunting portraits that employed themes of crucifixion, torment, and isolation. Incorporating the insights of The Logic of Sensation, French philosopher Gilles Deleuze s seminal criticism of Bacon s work, this volume highlights Bacon s approach to space as one of the defining forces of his work. By organizing the spatial and dramatic structure of his compositions with barely visible cubic or elliptical cages, his figures become trapped in a kind of invisible room. This sense of confinement creates a direct, unsettling impression on the viewer, and further emphasizes the painter s dark vision. This book features stunning reproductions of 40 large-scale paintings, including Study for a Portrait (1952), Chimpanzee (1955), Three Studies of the Male Back (1970), and Sand Dune (1983) as well as a selection of rarely exhibited works on paper. This book also contains a series of essays that explore the range of variation in Bacon s use of isolating constructions over a period of nearly 50 years, as well as the nature of his painting technique and compositions.