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- Title
Sensations spill a Deluge over the Figure.
- Authors
Collins, Lorna
- Abstract
This paper utilises Deleuze's Logic of Sensation to critique the concept ‘Figure’ that he raises to formulate this theory in his monograph of Francis Bacon. Deleuze engages with Bacon's paintings to demonstrate how sensations from Figural artworks rupture through representation and disrupt binary logic. However, in his argument Deleuze seems to use the same kind of thinking that he intends the Figure to disrupt, since he prioritises and secludes art deemed Figural over and above abstraction. Such problematic categorisation is challenged here, by juxtaposing Figural and abstract paintings by Francis Bacon and Wassily Kandinsky. Both Figural and abstract works resound with The Logic of Sensation, which thereby spills over those boundaries posited by Deleuze's Figure.
- Publication
Deleuze Studies, 2008, Vol 2, Issue 1, p49
- ISSN
1750-2241
- Publication type
Academic Journal
- DOI
10.3366/E1750224108000159