Francis Bacon
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Francis Bacon Details
About the Author Gilles Deleuze (1925-1995) was professor of philosophy at the University of Paris, Vincennes-St. Denis. Read more
Reviews
Deleuze's baroque elaborations are pointed in some kind of a direction in this one, to purposes that would be of interest to most painters, elaborating exterior readings of Bacon's work with a vocabulary of materials and sensations that burrow into the process-manipulation end of the deal, the material childhood of making and engaging. Not much cultural critical baggage. Strangely lucid for Deleuze, maybe because he has something substantial to expend his vocabulary on, rather than vague fields of desire and sensation going every which where? His provocative energies are deployed as creatively as any painter's at the coal-face, and not unlike. A kind of analogy to painting itself, in the way that Deleuze has of seeming to make it up as he goes along. Could be subtitled, if it wasn't a dangerous notion to put out there: Why we Paint. I recommend it to students, not to find out about Bacon (who is always good to find out about), or necessarily about how to paint a certain way, but to help them into a kind of head-space about painting, that takes it back to the kind of things you take can notice of when paint events you 'cause' start happening.
