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Francis Bacon: The Logic of Sensation Author: [France] Gilles Deleuze Publisher: Republic
Francis Bacon: The Logic of Sensation Author: [France] Gilles Deleuze Publisher: Republic
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Introduction · · · · · ·
In the new vision opened by Foucault, Deleuze is the one who has expanded the territory the widest, including literature, film, painting, etc. Francis Bacon: The Logic of Sensation, first published in France in 1981, predates his writings on film, Baroque and literary criticism, and has gradually been recognized as one of Deleuze's most important aesthetic texts. It can be read not only as a study of Bacon's paintings, but also as an important text in Deleuze's broad philosophy of art. Deleuze believes that Francis Bacon's paintings replaced figurative paintings with pure images, thus finding a third way between abstraction and figuration, saving the fate of images in the 20th century. In the book, Deleuze created a series of philosophical concepts, each of which is related to a specific aspect of Bacon's paintings, but they can also find their place in the "general logic of sensation".
【Editor's recommendation】
1. The most revolutionary representative of the 20th century philosophy and art world, this classic text is the result of the collision between Deleuze's philosophical thoughts and Bacon's paintings. Whether it is to understand Deleuze's philosophical concepts and thinking methods, or to interpret the content and formal characteristics of Bacon's works, this book is an indispensable entry point.
2. This book is a relatively easy entry point for readers to enter Deleuze's thoughts, and it is also an outstanding attempt by the author to extend his philosophical tentacles to painting. In Deleuze's view, philosophy is to create concepts, and concepts are light that can help us see the world clearly, especially the chaotic aesthetic world. This is not only a philosophical work, but also a beautiful "conceptual artwork".
About the Author · · · · · ·
Author: Gilles Deleuze (1925-1995)
French philosopher. Born in Paris, France on January 18, 1925, he studied at the Department of Philosophy of the Sorbonne University in Paris after graduating from high school in 1944. In 1957, he served as an assistant professor in the Department of Philosophy of the Sorbonne University. In 1960, he served as a research specialist at the French National Center for Scientific Research. From 1964 to 1969, he served as a professor of philosophy at the Lyon College. In 1969, he succeeded Michel Foucault as a professor of philosophy at the University of Paris VIII until his retirement in 1987. On November 4, 1995, he committed suicide by jumping from the window of his residence in Paris due to unbearable suffering from lung disease. Deleuze's influence is spread across all fields of the humanities. Capitalism and Schizophrenia (Volume 1): Anti-Oedipus and Capitalism and Schizophrenia (Volume 2): A Thousand Plateaus, co-authored with Félix Guattari, have already achieved worldwide reputation.
Translator: Dong Qiang
Dean of the French Department of Peking University, professor and doctoral supervisor. Chairman of the Fu Lei Translation Award Organizing Committee. Lived in France for 12 years. Once studied under the world literary master Kundera. Author of Liang Zongdai: Crossing Symbolism, Illustrated History of French Literature, and French poetry collection Untied Hands. More than 30 translated works, covering literature, art, humanities, religion and other fields, such as Western Art Dictionary, History of Western Visual Art (six volumes), Appreciation of Western Painting Schools, Biography of Baudelaire, Nadja, Archipelago of Memory, History of World Religious Ideas (Volume 3), Theory of Clouds: To Establish a New History of Painting, etc. In 2009, he was awarded the "Knight of Education" medal by the French government, the "Gold Medal of the Alliance Française" of the French Academy Grand Prix in 2013, the "Knight of the Legion of Honor" medal by the French government in 2015, and the title of "Honorary Doctor" by the Free University of Brussels (ULB) in Belgium in 2016.
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