Overview

Gilles Deleuze was one of the most influential and revolutionary philosophers of the twentieth century. Francis Bacon: The Logic of Sensation is his long-awaited work on Bacon,widely regarded as one of the most radical painters of the twentieth century.The book presents a deep engagement with Bacon's work and the nature of art. Deleuze analyzes the distinctive innovations that came to mark Bacon's style: the isolation of the figure, the violation deformations of the flesh, the complex use of color, the method of chance, and the use of the triptych form. Along the way, Deleuze introduces a number of his own famous concepts, such as the 'body without organs' and the 'diagram,' and contrasts his own approach to painting with that of both the phenomenological and the art historical traditions.Deleuze links Bacon's work to CTzanne's notion of a 'logic' of sensation, which reaches its summit in color and the 'coloring sensation.' Investigating this logic, Deleuze explores Bacon's crucial relation to past painters such as Velasquez, CTzanne, and Soutine, as well as Bacon's rejection of expressionism and abstract painting.Long awaited in translation, Francis Bacon is destined to become a classic philosophical reflection on the nature of painting.

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Author:   Gilles Deleuze (No current affiliation) ,  Daniel W. Smith
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint:   Mansell Publishing
Dimensions:   Width: 13.80cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 21.60cm
Weight:   0.431kg
ISBN:  

9780826466471

ISBN 10:   0826466478
Pages:   228
Publication Date:   22 April 2003
Audience:   General/trade ,  College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  General ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Language:   English

Table of Contents

Foreword; 1. The Round Area, the Ring; 2. Note on Figuration in Past Painting; 3. Athleticism; 4. Body, Meat, and Spirit: Becoming-Animal; 5. Recapitulative Note: Bacon's Periods and Aspects; 6. Painting and Sensation; 7. Hysteria; 8. Painting Forces; 9. Couples and Triptychs; 10. Note: What is a Triptych? 11. The Painting Before Painting... 12. The Diagram; 13. Analogy; 14. Every Painter Recapitulates the History of Painting in His or Her Own Way... 15. Bacon's Trajectory; 16. Note on Color

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"""...manages to be both insightful and rigorous. A marriage made in pictorial hell.."" -- Daily Telegraph"

...manages to be both insightful and rigorous. A marriage made in pictorial hell.. -- Daily Telegraph

manages to be both insightful and rigorous. A marriage made in pictorial hell.. Daily Telegraph

Author Information

Gilles Deleuze was Professor of Philosophy at the University of Paris VIII. Daniel W. Smith is Professor of Philosophy at Purdue University. He is the author of Essays on Deleuze (Edinburgh 2012) and also the translator, from the French, of books by Gilles Deleuze, Pierre Klossowski, Isabelle Stengers, and Michel Serres.

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