DOI: 10.4231/m0hw-f107
title: Painting and the Question of Concepts: Lecture 6, 19 May 1981

description: &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Deleuze Seminars&lt;/em&gt; is a collection of audio recordings, transcriptions, and English translations of, and supplemental materials from, the lectures French philosopher Gilles Deleuze gave during his career at the University of Paris 8.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&ldquo;Painting and the Question of Concepts&rdquo; was an 8-lecture seminar given from late March to early June of 1981. In this seminar, Deleuze critiques aesthetic theories which treat art as &lsquo;representation&rsquo;, presenting instead his own aesthetic concepts. Many of the concepts and works of art discussed herein also appear in Deleuze&rsquo;s book published the same year,&lt;em&gt; Francis Bacon-Logique de la sensation&lt;/em&gt; (&lt;em&gt;Francis Bacon: The Logic of Sensation&lt;/em&gt;), making &ldquo;Painting and the Question of Concepts&rdquo; an important companion to Deleuze&rsquo;s book.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;In the 19 May 1981 lecture, topics of discussion include: analysis of space in various kinds of art, including Egyptian, Greek, and Byzantine art; German writer Johann Wolfgang von Goethe; French Romantic artist Eug&egrave;ne Delacroix; J.W.M. Turner; van Gogh; the techniques of C&eacute;zanne and Georges Seurat; Clement Greenberg; French artist Paul Gauguin and his &lt;em&gt;La Belle Ang&egrave;le&lt;/em&gt;; Alois Riegl; linearity; Swiss art historian Heinrich W&ouml;lfflin; and Leonardo da Vinci.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;The new version of this dataset includes: the English translation and French transcription in Open Document Text (odt) format, an aggregate version of the audio recordings into a single mp3, and the original Paris-8 French transcription of the recorded lecture. The dataset of the first version includes the three mp3 recordings of the lecture and a single mp3, and the complete French transcription of the recorded lecture in both pdf and plain text. The aggregate audio file has been downsampled.&lt;/p&gt;

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&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Les S&eacute;minaires de Deleuze&lt;/em&gt; sont une collection d&#39;enregistrements audio, de transcriptions et de traductions en anglais et de documents compl&eacute;mentaires des conf&eacute;rences que le philosophe fran&ccedil;ais Gilles Deleuze a donn&eacute; lors de sa carri&egrave;re &agrave; l&#39;Universit&eacute; de Paris 8.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&laquo;La peinture et la question des concepts&raquo; &eacute;tait un s&eacute;minaire de 8 conf&eacute;rences donn&eacute; de fin mars &agrave; d&eacute;but juin 1981. Dans ce s&eacute;minaire, Deleuze critique les th&eacute;ories esth&eacute;tiques qui traitent l&#39;art comme &laquo;repr&eacute;sentation&raquo;, pr&eacute;sentant ses propres concepts esth&eacute;tiques. Beaucoup de concepts et d&#39;&oelig;uvres d&#39;art d&eacute;crites ici apparaissent &eacute;galement dans le livre de Deleuze publi&eacute; la m&ecirc;me ann&eacute;e, &lt;em&gt;Francis Bacon-Logique de la sensation&lt;/em&gt;, faisant de &laquo;La peinture et de la question des concepts&raquo; un important compagnon de le livre de Deleuze.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Dans la lecture du 19 mai 1981, les sujets de discussion comprennent: l&#39;analyse de l&#39;espace dans divers types d&#39;art, y compris l&#39;espace &eacute;gyptien, l&#39;espace grec et inverse de l&#39;espace du l&#39;art byzantin; l&#39;&eacute;crivain allemand Johann Wolfgang von Goethe; l&#39;artiste romantique fran&ccedil;ais Eug&egrave;ne Delacroix; peintre de paysage romantique anglais J.W.M. Tourneur; peintre n&eacute;erlandais Vincent van Gogh; les techniques de C&eacute;zanne et de Seurat; Clement Greenberg; l&#39;artiste fran&ccedil;ais Paul Gauguin et &lt;em&gt;La Belle Ang&egrave;le&lt;/em&gt;; historien d&#39;art autrichien Alois Riegl; lin&eacute;arit&eacute;; l&#39;historien suisse de l&#39;art Heinrich W&ouml;lfflin; et L&eacute;onard de Vinci.&lt;/p&gt;
description: Lecture given by French philosopher Gilles Deleuze at the University of Paris 8, 19 May 1981. This is lecture 6 of an 8-lecture seminar Deleuze taught between March and June 1981.