Francis Bacon: The Logic of Sensation (Continuum Impacts): The Logic of Sensation (Continuum Impacts) - Softcover

Gilles Deleuze

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0826479308 ISBN 13: 9780826479303

Publisher: Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd., 2005

Synopsis

Francis Bacon is Deleuze's long-awaited work on Bacon, widely regarded as the 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 analyses the distinctive innovations that came to mark Bacon's style while introducing a number of his own famous concepts. Deleuze links Bacon's work to Cezanne's notion of a 'logic' of sensation, which reaches its summit in colour. Investigating this logic, Deleuze explores Bacon's crucial relation to past painters such as Velasquez, Cezanne, and Soutine, as well as Bacon's rejection of expressionism and abstract painting. Translated by Daniel W. Smith

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Review:

"'A lively and systematic study of Bacon's work. The book is clearly organised, helping to make complicated arguments easier to follow'. Modern Painters; 'an entertaining read' Art Monthly; 'A path breaking work on the aesthetics of sensation, the philosophy of colour, on form, and on painting in general, Francis Bacon is one of the most important, if not the most crucial, of all of Deleuze's writings.' Tom Conley, Harvard University"

About the Author:

Gilles Deleuze (1925-1995) was Professor of Philosophy at the University of Paris. He is the co-author of Anti-Oedipus, A Thousand Plateaus, and author of Cinema 1, Cinema 2, Foucault, The Fold, Dialogues II, Difference and Repetition, Logic of Sense, Kant's Critical Philosophy, Proust and Signs, Nietzsche and Philosophy, all published by Continuum.

About this edition

• Publisher: Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd.
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0826479308
• ISBN 13: 9780826479303
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 176