Deleuze on music, painting and the arts / Ronald Bogue.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bogue, Ronald, 1948-

Series:

Deleuze and the arts

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Deleuze, Gilles, 1925-1995.

Deleuze, Gilles.

Arts--Philosophy.

Arts.

Aesthetics.

Physical Description:

xii, 224 pages : illustrations, music ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : Routledge, 2003.

Summary:

Central to Deleuze's theory of the arts are his writings on music and painting. As Ronald Bogue shows in a series of clear and incisive analyses, Deleuze's approach to music grows out of his cosmology, while his treatment of painting arises from his conception of the body's relation to sensation and force. What music and painting disclose for Deleuze are the complementary relations between corporeal experience and natural creative processes that shape all the arts, making them at once cosmic and affective modes of thought. This is the first detailed study of Deleuze's writings on music and painting, which are among the most daring and provocative of all his philosophical texts. Essential reading for anyone interested in music, painting, and the theory of the arts.

Contents:

Part I Music

Chapter 1 Musica Naturans: Deterritorializing the Refrain 13

Music and Cosmos in Antiquity

Rhythm and the Refrain

From Milieus to Territories

Messiaen and the Composition of Time

The Music of the Birds

Chapter 2 Music in Time: History and Becoming 33

Becoming-Woman, Becoming-Child

Transverse Becomings of Musical Invention

Classical Form, Romantic Variation

The Problem of the People

Varese and the Modern Sound Machine

Cosmic People and the History of Discernibility

Chapter 3 Natura Musicans: Territory and the Refrain 55

Ethology and Territoriality

Von Uexkull and Musical Milieus

Ruyer and the Melodies of Developmental Biology

Structural Coupling and Natural Drift

Function and Aesthetics

The Autonomous Refrain

Part II Painting

Chapter 4 Faces 79

Hand and Mouth, Tool and Face

Regimes of Signs and the Faces of Power

White Wall, Black Hole

The Abstract Machine of Faciality

The Face and the Gaze

From the Gaze to the Face

Deterritorializing the Face

Primitive Heads, Christ-Face, Probe Heads

Chapter 5 Forces 111

The Figural

Systole and Diastole

The Brutality of Fact

Forces

Chapter 6 Color 131

Analogical Modulation

Haptic and Optic

Ground and Foundation

Excursus on the Gothic Line

Haptic Colorism

Analogue Diagrammatic Modulation

Part III The Arts

Chapter 7 Sensation and the Plane of Composition 163

Plane of Immanence, Plane of Composition

Virtual and Possible

Specific Domains

Elective Affinities.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0415966078

0415966086

OCLC:

51870818