Francis Bacon
The Logic of Sensation, 2003-2005
Gilles Deleuze, Logique de la Sensation, 1981
Translation Daniel W. Smith
Author's Preface to the English Edition
xii
[...] violence of sensation, not representation.
2 Note on Figuration in Past Painting
p 8
In fact it would be a mistake to think
that the painter works on a white and virgin surface.
The entire suface is already invested virtually with all kinds of clichés,
which the painter will have to break with.
4 Body, Meat and Spirit, Becoming-Animal
p 15
Bacon is a painter of heads, not faces [...]
7 Hysteria
p 32
The body without organs is opposed less to organs
than to that organization of organs we call an organism.
p 37
With painting, hysteria becomes art.
Or rather, with the painter, hysteria becomes painting.
8 Painting forces
p 40
Paul Klee's famous formula —
"Not to render the visible, but to render visible" [...]
12 The Diagram
p 77
Bacon thus follows a third path,
which is neither optical like abstract painting,
nor manual like action painting.
Art,
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