logic of sensation

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Logic of sensation is a philosophical notion, associated with Gilles Deleuze’s reading of Francis Bacon, that examines how art directly produces and organizes sensory experience beyond representation.

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instanceOf aesthetic theory
concept in continental philosophy
philosophical concept
aimsAt bypassing narrative interpretation
bypassing symbolic representation
explaining how painting directly affects the nervous system
analyzedIn Francis Bacon: The Logic of Sensation NERFINISHED
associatedWith Francis Bacon NERFINISHED
Gilles Deleuze NERFINISHED
basedOn analysis of Francis Bacon’s paintings
concerns how art produces sensation
organization of sensory experience
connectedTo Deleuze’s concept of intensity
Deleuze’s philosophy of difference
concept of affect in Deleuze
concept of the Figure in Deleuze
developedInContextOf Gilles Deleuze’s reading of Francis Bacon
distinguishesFrom figurative illustration
narrative content
representation
emphasizes immediacy of sensation
materiality of paint
non-representational aspects of art
the body
focusesOn art
painting
sensation
influences Deleuzian film theory
contemporary art theory
studies of visual culture
interprets Bacon’s spatial composition
Bacon’s treatment of the figure
Bacon’s use of color
opposes representational theories of art
relatedTo Deleuzian aesthetics
affect theory
modernist painting
phenomenology of perception
philosophy of art
situatedWithin 20th-century French philosophy
postwar art criticism
treats painting as a field of forces
sensation as autonomous from representation
the canvas as a diagram of sensation
usedBy art theorists
philosophers of aesthetics
scholars of Deleuze

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