Painting and hysteria: the logic of sensation and non- representative figures in Bacon and Deleuze

Authors

  • Cíntia Vieira da Silva Universidade Federal de Ouro Preto (UFOP), Ouro Preto

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5380/dp.v11i1.32809

Keywords:

Deleuze, Bacon, figure, sensation, hysteria, body

Abstract

The article tries to show some elements of the Deleuzian analysis of the painting by Francis Bacon, focusing on the aspects that allow us to consider such painting as viscerally anti-representational. Bacon’s painting figures sensations, promoting, at the same time, experimentation and new corporealities through this figural production. Thinking of the relationship between bodies and the forces acting on them, causing the sensory waves to occur, Deleuze conceives of painting in general, and Bacon’s in particular, as a paradoxical and hysterical experience of thought, experiment in which body and mind are maximally articulated.

Author Biography

Cíntia Vieira da Silva, Universidade Federal de Ouro Preto (UFOP), Ouro Preto

Professora Adjunta no Departamento de Filosofia e no Mestrado em Estética e Filosofia da Arte da Universidade Federal de Ouro Preto. Doutora em Filosofia pela Unicamp.

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Published

2014-04-30

How to Cite

Vieira da Silva, C. (2014). Painting and hysteria: the logic of sensation and non- representative figures in Bacon and Deleuze. DoisPontos, 11(1). https://doi.org/10.5380/dp.v11i1.32809

Issue

Vol. 11 No. 1 (2014): Filosofia e Pintura

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