Francis Bacon: The Logic of SensationGilles 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. |
Contents
The Round Area the Ring | xv |
Note on Figuration in Past Painting | 6 |
Athleticism | 10 |
Body Meat and Spirit BecomingAnimal | 18 |
Recapitulative Note Bacons Periods and Aspects | 25 |
Painting and Sensation | 32 |
Hysteria | 42 |
Painting Forces | 54 |
The Diagram | 97 |
Analogy | 109 |
Every Painter Recapitulates the History of Painting in His or Her Own Way | 120 |
Bacons Path | 133 |
Note on Color | 142 |
The Eye and the Hand | 152 |
Index of Paintings | 160 |
Notes | 171 |
Couples and Triptychs | 63 |
Note What Is a Triptych? | 72 |
The Painting before Painting | 84 |
Index | 195 |
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abstract expressionism abstract painting act of painting already analogical language animal armature Bacon's paintings becomes body without organs broken tones Byzantine art catastrophe Cézanne Cézanne's Chapter chiaroscuro clarity cliché color-patch completely different contour coupled Figure Crucifixion D. H. Lawrence D. J. Enright defined deformation Deleuze diagram elements entire painting fields of color flesh Francis Bacon function Gauguin George Dyer Gogh ground hand haptic head horizontal hysteria hysterical Interviews invisible forces Isabel Rawsthorne isolated light longer Lucian Freud malerisch material structure meat Michel Leiris mirror modulation mouth movement narration Oil and pastel Oil on canvas Olivier Messiaen opposed optical space painter panel Paris pastel on canvas photograph pictorial plane precisely Private collection purely optical relations resemblance rhythm round area scream seems sense shadow smile tactile things Three Studies traits trans triptych umbrella violence visible visual whole washbasin York
References to this book
Art Beyond Representation: The Performative Power of the Image Barbara Bolt No preview available - 2004 |