February 03, 2005
Francis Bacon #7
Back to Francis Bacon, to the body as figure, Gilles Deleuze, the word and the image.
F.Bacon, Pope 1, 1951
In the Logic of Sensation Gilles Deleuze writes:
"There are two ways of going beyond figuration (that is, beyond both illustrative and the figurative): either towards abstract form or towards the Figure. Cezanne gave a simple name to this way of the Figure: sensation. The Figure is the sensible form related to a sensation; it acts immediately upon the nervous system, which is of the flesh, whereas abstract form is addressd to the head, and acts through the intermediary of the brain, which is closer to the bone."(p.34)
That is very insightful. The way of the form dominated in the modernist regime in the art institution. Surrealism was repudiated in favour of Cubism and astact expressionism by Alfred Barr at the Museum of Modern Art.
What was repudiated was the rebellious Bataillian tendency of Surrealism, which returned to the body, sensation and intensity of experience.
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