(P/B) FRANCIS BACON

Παρουσίαση

In this landmark text by one of the most influential philosophers of the twentieth century, Gilles Deleuze takes the paintings of Francis Bacon as his object of his study. 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 and deformations of the flesh, the complex use of color, the method of chance, and the use of the triptych form.
Here Deleuze creates a number of his well-known concepts, such as the 'body without organs' and contrasts his own approach to painting with that of both the phenomenological and the art historical traditions. Deleuze links Bacon's work to Cezanne's notion of a 'logic' of sensation and, investigating this logic, explores Bacon's crucial relation to past painters such as Cezanne, Velasquez, and Soutine. (From the publisher)

Περιεχόμενα

Translator's preface Daniel W. Smith
Preface to the French edition Alain Badiou and Barbara Cassin
Author's foreword
Author's preface to the English edition
- The round area, the ring
- Note on figuration in past painting
- Athleticism
- Body, meat and spirit, becoming-animal
- Recapitulative note: Bacon's periods and aspects
- Painting and sensation
- Hysteria
- Painting forces
- Couples and triptychs
- Note: What is a triptych?
- The painting before painting...
- The diagram
- Analogy
- Every painter recapitulates the history of painting in his or her own way
- Bacon's path
- Note on color
- The eye and the hand
Index of paintings
Notes
Index