Dimensions
140 x 216 x 15mm
Gilles Deleuze was one of the most influential and revolutionary philosophers of the Twentieth Century. This book is his long-awaited work on Bacon, widely regarded as one of the most radical painters of the Twentieth Century.
The book presents a deep engagement with Bacon's work and the nature of art. Deleuze analyses the distinctive innovations that came to mark Bacon's style: the isolation of the figure, the violent deformations of the flesh, the complex use of colour, the method of chance, and the use of the triptych form.
Along the way, Deleuze introduces a number of his own famous concepts, such as the "body without organs" and the "diagram", and contrasts his own approach to painting with that of both the phenomenological and the art historical traditions.
