Description: "In the spring of 1981, Gilles Deleuze began a series of eight seminars on painting and its intersections with philosophy at the Experimental University of Saint-Denis. The recorded sessions, newly transcribed and translated into English, are now available in their entirety for the first time. Extensively annotated by philosopher David Lapoujade, On Painting illuminates Deleuze's thinking on artistic creation, significantly extending the lines of thought in his book Francis Bacon"-- Provided by publisher.
Review Quotes:
"Clear, accessible, exhilarating, On Painting is the finest introduction to Gilles Deleuze's reflections on visual media and aesthetics. Whether the diagram, the distinction of analog and digital, chaos and event, sentience and sublimity, or modulation and coloration, David Lapoujade and Charles J. Stivale bring to Anglophone readers a pedagogy of the highest magnitude."--Tom Conley, Harvard University
"Gilles Deleuze's lectures on painting explore catastrophe and its relation to the birth of color via a confrontation with prepictorial chaos based on the 'diagram, ' which generates different modulations of flesh and color. The result is a text that will have the same revolutionary impact on art history and studio practice that his two Cinema books have had on film studies."--Colin Gardner, University of California, Santa Barbara
"[Deleuze] works to enrich the 'rich tissue of correspondences' between art, science, and philosophy in an accessible and far-reaching extension of his thought."--e-flux
"This is now English readers' best introduction to [Deleuze's] thoughts about Francis Bacon, Cézanne, visual art, how we relate to the violent catastrophe behind all things." --London Magazine
"A delight for those who love and think about art." --Rain Taxi