On Painting: Courses, March-June 1981 (Univocal)

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Available for the first time in English: the complete and annotated transcripts of Deleuze&’s 1981 seminars on painting From 1970 until 1987, Gilles Deleuze held a weekly seminar at the Experimental University of Vincennes and, starting in 1980, at Saint-Denis. In the spring of 1981, he began a series of eight seminars on painting and its intersections with philosophy. 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. Through paintings and writing by Rembrandt, Delacroix, Turner, Cézanne, Van Gogh, Klee, Pollock, and Bacon, Deleuze explores the creative process, from chaos to the pictorial fact. The introduction and use of color feature prominently as Deleuze elaborates on artistic and philosophical concepts such as the diagram, modulation, code, and the digital and the analogical. Through this scrutiny, he raises a series of profound and stimulating questions for his students: How does a painter ward off grayness and attain color? What is a line without contour? Why paint at all? Written and thought in a rhizomatic manner that is thoroughly Deleuzian—strange, powerful, and novel—On Painting traverses both the conception of art history and the possibility of color as a philosophical concept. Retail e-book files for this title are screen-reader friendly with images accompanied by short alt text and/or extended descriptions.
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2025

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Publisher Quality
ISBN-13:
9781452973227
Related ISBNs:
9781517918408
Publisher:
University of Minnesota Press
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Copyrighted By:
Les Éditions de Minuit.
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No
Language:
English
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No
Categories:
History, Nonfiction, Art and Architecture, Philosophy
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Bookshare Staff
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This is a copyrighted book.
Edited by:
David Lapoujade
Translator:
Charles J. Stivale

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