Francis Bacon

by Deleuze, Gilles; Bacon, Francis; Smith, Daniel W.

• ISBN13: 9780816643417
• ISBN10: 0816643415
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2003-10-01
• Publisher: Univ of Minnesota Pr

Summary

Illuminating Bacon's painting's the nonrational logic of sensation, and the act of painting itself, this work--presented in lucid and nuanced translation--points beyond painting toward connections with other arts such as music, cinema, and literature. "Francis Bacon is an indispensable entry point into the conceptual proliferation of Deleuze' philosophy as a whole.

Author Biography

Gilles Deleuze (1925-1995) was professor of philosophy at the University of Paris, Vincennes-St. Denis.

Table of Contents

Translator's Introduction
Deleuze on Bacon: Three Conceptual Trajectories in The Logic of Sensation
Daniel W. Smith	vii
Author's Introduction to the English Edition	xxix
Francis Bacon: The Logic of Sensation
Preface	3	(2)
1. The Round Area, the Ring	5	(5)
2. Note on Figuration in Past Painting	10	(3)
3. Athleticism	13	(6)
4. Body, Meat, and Spirit: Becoming-Animal	19	(6)
5. Recapitulative Note: Bacon's Periods and Aspects	25	(6)
6. Painting and Sensation	31	(8)
7. Hysteria	39	(9)
8. Painting Forces	48	(7)
9. Couples and Triptychs	55	(7)
10. Note: What Is a Triptych?	62	(9)
11. The Painting before Painting	71	(10)
12. The Diagram	81	(10)
13. Analogy	91	(8)
14. Painters Recapitulate the History of Painting in Their Own Way	99	(10)
15. Bacon's Trajectory	109	(7)
16. Note on Color	116	(8)
17. The Eye and the Hand	124	(6)
Afterword: A Politics of Fact and Figure
Tom Conley	130	(21)
Notes	151	(18)
List of Paintings	169	(6)
Index	175