Francis Bacon. Logica della sensazione. Ediz. illustrata

Another one in the writers should read aesthetics category, for example, here's one of Deleuze's passages on painting that transfers nicely to writing: "It is a mistake to think that the painter works on a white surface. The figurative belief follows from this mistake. If the painter were before a wh Leggi tutto

. . اشیا بر می خیزند و به سمت نور صعود می کنند ..... . یا انگار در تنهایی به نیرویی گوش سپرده ایم که ما را میخکوب کرده است . . فرم ها با آزاد شدن بیشتر از زمینه به سمت فضا رها می شوند جایی که نگاه آن ها را دریافت می کند و کنار هم گرد می آورد. . . لیوان ها در سطحی ثابت همراهانی معلق اند . . . نیرویی همچون نور مح Leggi tutto

Woah! Deleuze does Art History and does it weird! I really like how Deleuze uses formalism, especially with his close exploration of the diagram, in order to abstract it and let it articulate the weirdness of the "in-between" moments of being without dissolving the self, per se. Thus, he argues for

My first foray into Deleuze, this is quite an interesting little book. Viewing the referenced paintings is a must to grasp his argument. My read of it is that Bacon's paintings depict the "logic of sensation", the Rhythm of life - which is a systolic/diastolic movement, a contraction/expansion. The

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• Francis Bacon's painting is of a very special violence. Bacon, to be sure, often traffics in the violence of a depicted scene: spectacles of horror, crucifixions, prostheses and mutilations, monsters. But these are overly facile detours, detours that the artist himself judges severely and condemns Leggi tutto

This was a very satisfying read. Deleuze's phenomenological interpretation of Bacon's work is stunningly lucid and insightful. There are many quotable passages of pellucid prose that render the work more approachable and intimate, giving one the sense the philosopher owned some of the great painter' Leggi tutto

um dos melhores livros sobre história da arte, história da pintura. e deleuze escutava talking heads. "há no cristianismo um germe do ateísmo tranquilo que vau alimentar a pintura. o pintor pode facilmente ser indiferente ao tema religioso que deve representar. nada o impede de perceber que a forma, Leggi tutto

Intense, Violent, Shocking Deleuze uses Francis Bacon's paintings as an excuse to talk not only about them, and the ideas and concepts that can be found within and through them, but about his theory of the history of art in general. Completely changed the way I think about modern paintings.