November 12, 2004
Deleuze & Bacon
I've started reading Gilles Deleuze's book on Francis Bacon called Francis Bacon the logic of sensation.
Francis Bacon, Study of Red Pope 1962, Second Version, 1971
Daniel Smith says that the Logic of Sensation can be read as a philosophical study of Bacon’s paintings and also as a crucial text within Deleuze’s broader philosophy of art. Smith says that as a philosopher Deleuze’s aim in his analyses of the arts is to create new concepts that correspond to both a particular aspect of Bacon’s paintings but also finds a place in “a general logic of sensation,” that is different from perception, which is the secondary rational organization of a primary, nonrational dimension of sensation.
This is no work of philosophy as a work of art criticism of Bacon's paintings.
Posted by Gary Sauer-Thompson at November 12, 2004 05:12 PM | TrackBack