DOI: 10.4231/px08-t766
title: Painting and the Question of Concepts: Lecture 2, 07 April 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 07 April 1981 lecture, topics of discussion include: the concept &lsquo;chaos-germ&rsquo;; the white page and the process of writing; the painter and the photo; French artist G&eacute;rard Fromanger; Francis Bacon&rsquo;s painting &lt;em&gt;The Sleepers&lt;/em&gt;, the diagram, and some of his interviews; Michelangelo; Mannerism; fact and the pictorial given; Czech painter and graphic artist Franti&scaron;ek (Fran&ccedil;ois) Kupka; and the Polish-British writer Joseph Conrad.&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 in a single mp3, and the original Paris-8 French transcription of the recorded lecture. The first version includes the audio recordings, 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 07 avril 1981, les sujets de discussion comprennent: la notion &laquo;chaos-germe&raquo;; la page blanche et le proc&egrave;s d&#39;&eacute;criture; le peintre et la photo; l&#39;artiste fran&ccedil;ais G&eacute;rard Fromanger; la peinture de Francis Bacon &lt;em&gt;les dormeurs&lt;/em&gt;, le diagramme et certaines de ses entretiens; Michel-Ange; Mani&eacute;risme; le fait et le donn&eacute; pictural; le peintre et artiste graphique tch&egrave;que Franti&scaron;ek (Fran&ccedil;ois) Kupka; et l&#39;&eacute;crivain polonais-britannique Joseph Conrad.&lt;/p&gt;
description: Lecture given by French philosopher Gilles Deleuze at the University of Paris 8, 07 April 1981. This is lecture 2 of an 8-lecture seminar Deleuze taught between March and June 1981.