Gilles Deleuze, FRANCIS BACON. LOGICA DELLA SENSAZIONE, 2017

One of the most important monographs on the English painter Francis Bacon. With this book, Deleuze elaborates an original instrument capable of capturing the multiple aspects of Francis Bacon’s work, focusing on a whole new conception of the sensitive status of seeing. The result is a constellation of themes and perspectives that definitely surpasses the results commonly offered by art criticism. In reality, not only Bacon’s painting, but all art – from that of ancient Egypt to Byzantine, from Michelangelo to Velasquez, from Van Gogh to Cézanne, Klee, Kandinskij, Pollock, Michaux, etc. – lights up with a completely new light, while aesthetics regains its own status and becomes a real “logic of sensation”.