Sensation and Painting in Deleuze

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Paula Honorato Crespo

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This essay is a comment on the theory of painting developed by French philosopher Gilles Deleuze Francis Bacon. Logics of sensation. This text revise the foundations that support the understanding of pictorial medium as (well as the) action fi eld for contemporary art, nor Bacon’s work in particular. From this pant of view, the keys of deleuzian theory are revealed as: fi rst, painting conceived as a language oriented to the body wich has the power to confi gurated fi xed or determinate sensations and, second, painting thinked as an objective-material manifestation of those sensations.

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Paula Honorato Crespo

 Instituto de Estética. Pontifi cia Universidad Católica de Chile. Santiago phonorat@uc.cl