Francis Bacon : the logic of sensation /

"First published in French in 1981, Francis Bacon has come to be recognized as one of Gilles Deleuze's most significant texts in aesthetics. Anticipating his work on cinema, the baroque, and literary criticism, the book can be read not only as a study of Bacon's paintings but also as...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Deleuze, Gilles, 1925-1995
Format: Book
Language:English
French
Published: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c2004
Minneapolis : ©2004
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Table of Contents:
  • Francis Bacon: The logic of sensation
  • 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
  • Painters recapitulate the history of painting in their own way
  • Bacon's trajectory
  • Note on color
  • The eye and the hand
  • A politics of fact and figure / Tom Conley