This morning, on a review of David Lynch’s paintings, the author quoted the following from a John Berger essay on Francis Bacon’s and Walt Disney’s figures (certainly, on the surface, a
weird coupling) :
“…the marks they bear, their wounds, look
self-inflicted. But self-inflicted in a highly
special sense. Not by an individual but
by a special species, Man – because… the distinction between individual and
species becomes meaningless.”
I went googling, not very deeply, for the source of the
quote, and, of course, landed on another essay.
An essay that, through Berger’s re-evaluation of Francis Bacon, speaks
urgently to our times. It is one of the
most powerful reviews I have read in a very long time. It's pre-Trumpian date makes it prescient; it's content makes it feel as if it were written five minutes ago.
-katya
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