/lit/ - Literature

>>17786686
I want to be taken to a dark otherworld

>>17786691
Where winged shadows lie beneath me as I melt and expire

>>17786686
Lautréamont
Baudelaire
Bataille

clive barker?

As someone who loves Francis Bacon, some of my favourite books are: Perfume, Picture of Dorian Grey, and The Collector.
Not neccessarily "Baconesque" but I enjoy them for the same reason I like Bacon - dark, but beautiful.
>>17786697
>Bataille
Seconding this.

>>17786697
They are more gothic, but maybe this painting >>17786691

>>17786686
Bacon has always been for the lowest common denominator. Paintings over salted with sensationalist imagery, blackened in sections to give his thin visions the appearance of depth; but those with good taste can tell what they are: flimsy slices hacked into being by a butcher of beauty, by a master of edge if of nothing else. They sizzle and pop from the heat of his scandals, not from their own inner life. They attract the uncultivated mob, who grab and fart as their big bellies rumble, as if crying out: 'Give us more Bacon!'
Do they not know that the thing for which they hanker can provide them with no real nourishment? Not to their eyes, their souls or minds? Do they not know its all spice and so substance, slabs of fat with hardly an ounce of real meat? How could they know? They've never been taught.
But I know.
And I also know that in a few decades, once the heavy smoke enshrouding the man and his work has finally cleared, people will be embarassed to admit they ever indulged their disgusting, lowbrow appetite for Bacon.

>>17786958
Nice

>>17786958
So whom are some painters you think are good?

>>17786958

No one is going to recommend Deleuze's book on Bacon??

>>17787016
The last exhibition I've seen that could be considered art was titled "A Delinquent Child Having an Out of Body Experience" hosted at the Residence Gallery in East London.

>>17787025
Yeah right. He is probably the only philosopher who’s prose is wacked out enough to complement Bacons paintings. I like how much he focuses on the sensations and the “becoming” in Bacon instead of just strictly keeping to some dry ass historical or technical analysis

>>17787036
Pure crap, mate
I agree Bacon is admired by many plebs without much knowledge of art, but he’s admired because his work has a certain richness, lurid power, and seductive use of color and composition. If you think pic related is superior to Bacon in any terms, formal or symbolic, it’s you who has the pleb taste. Simple as.

>>17787036
Another. You really think this flat, retarded hypebeast shit beats Bakker? Laughable.. you must be trolling

>>17787064
Brush up on the reading comp big guy. The post that was critical of Bacon was clearly a meme.

>>17787071
*Bacon

>>17787064
Formally, and especially symbolically, it exceeds Bacon's work.

>>17786697
Interesting. Any works in particular? I rarely read Frenchies desu.
>>17786704
Dorian Gray reminds you of Bacon!? It's been years since I read it. Haven't peeped either of the other two you mentioned. If Bataille is getting all this love though he may have to be first on the list.
>>17786958
heh
>>17787025
Wtf how did I never hear about this? Deleuze is a doozy though, I find him rather difficult to crack.

>>17787064
That's Bladee

>>17786686
Any french decadent prose

>>17787135
>Dorian Gray reminds you of Bacon!?
The way his portrait becomes twisted and disfigured as he becomes more and more twisted himself reminds me of the distorted human figures in a Bacon painting.