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Francis Bacon:

the logic of sensation

GILLES DELEUZE

Translated from the French by Daniel W. Smith

continuum

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This work is published with the support of the French Ministry of Culture Centre National du Livre.

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This book is supported by the French Ministry for Foreign Affairs, as part of the Burgess programme headed for the French Embassy in London by the Institut Francais du Royaume-Uni.

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First published in France, 1981, by Editions de la Difference ? Editions du Seuil, 2002, Francis Bacon: Logique de la Sensation This English translation ? Continuum 2003

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Contents

Translator's Preface, by Daniel W. Smith

vii

Preface to the French Edition, by Alain Badiou

and Barbara Cassin

viii

Author's Foreword

ix

Author's Preface to the English Edition

x

1. The Round Area, the Ring

1

The round area and its analogues Distinction

between the Figure and the figurative The fact

The question of "matters of fact" The three

elements of painting: structure, Figure, and

contour - Role of the fields

2. Note on Figuration in Past Painting

8

Painting, religion, and photography On two

misconceptions

3. Athleticism

12

First movement: from the structure to the Figure

Isolation - Athleticism Second movement:

from the Figure to the structure The body escapes

from itself: abjection Contraction, dissipation:

washbasins, umbrellas, and mirrors

4. Body, Meat, and Spirit, Becoming-Animal

20

Man and animal The zone of indiscernibility

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Flesh and bone: the meat descends from the bone Pity - Head, face, and meat

5. Recapitulative Note: Bacon's Periods

27

and Aspects

From the scream to the smile: dissipation - Bacon's

three successive periods - The coexistence of all

the movements The functions of the contour

6. Painting and Sensation

34

Cezanne and sensation --The levels of sensation

-- Figuration and violence The movement of

translation, the stroll The phenomenological unity

of the senses: sensation and rhythm

7. Hysteria

44

The body without organs: Artaud - Worringer's

Gothic line - What the "difference of level" in

sensation means Vibration Hysteria and presence

Bacon's doubt --Hysteria, painting, and the eye

8. Painting Forces

56

Rendering the invisible: the problem of painting

Deformation: neither transformation nor

decomposition - The scream - Bacon's love of life -

Enumeration offerees

9. Couples and Triptychs

65

Coupled Figures --The battle and the coupling of

sensation Resonance - Rhythmic Figures

Amplitude and the three rhythms - Two types of

"matters of fact"

10. Note: What Is a Triptych?

74

The attendant - The active and the passive -

The fall: the active reality of the difference in level

- Light, union and separation

iv

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