Skip to content

Francis Bacon The Logic of Sensation

Best in textbook rentals since 2012!

ISBN-10: 0816643423

ISBN-13: 9780816643424

Edition: N/A

Authors: Gilles Deleuze

List price: $20.00
Blue ribbon 30 day, 100% satisfaction guarantee!
what's this?
Rush Rewards U
Members Receive:
Carrot Coin icon
XP icon
You have reached 400 XP and carrot coins. That is the daily max!

Description:

Translated and with an Introduction by Daniel W. Smith nbsp;Afterword by Tom Conleynbsp; Gilles Deleuze had several paintings by Francis Bacon hanging in his Paris apartment, and the painter’s method and style as well as his motifs of seriality, difference, and repetition influenced Deleuze’s work. This first English translation shows us one of the most original and important French philosophers of the twentieth century in intimate confrontation with one of that century’s most original and important painters.nbsp; In considering Bacon, Deleuze offers implicit and explicit insights into the origins and development of his own philosophical and aesthetic ideas, ideas that represent a turning…    
Customers also bought

Book details

List price: $20.00
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Publication date: 5/25/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 224
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.75" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.638
Language: English

Gilles Deleuze was professor of philosophy at the Universit� de Paris VIII until his retirement in 1987. His books include Nietzsche and Philosophy, Dialogues,and The Logic of Sense,all published by Columbia.

Translator's Introduction
Deleuze on Bacon: Three Conceptual Trajectories in The Logic of Sensation
Author's Introduction to the English Edition
Preface
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
Afterword: A Politics of Fact and Figure
Notes
List of Paintings
Index