DOI: 10.4231/5zyv-8j68
title: Painting and the Question of Concepts: Lecture 8, 02 June 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 02 June 1981 lecture, Deleuze defines color schemes (&lt;em&gt;r&eacute;gimes&lt;/em&gt;) according to three &lsquo;characters&rsquo; (&lt;em&gt;caract&egrave;res&lt;/em&gt;). Topics of discussion include: Renaissance painting; Flemish/Netherlandish painter Jan Van Eyck and his &lsquo;secret&rsquo;; Breton painter and writer Xavier de Langlais (Langleiz), and his &lt;em&gt;The Technique of Oil Painting&lt;/em&gt;; 17th century color schemes (&lt;em&gt;r&eacute;gimes&lt;/em&gt;); Luminism; Italian painters Caravaggio, Tintoretto, and Titian; Flemish artist Peter Paul Rubens; Goethe on &lsquo;glaze&rsquo; (&lt;em&gt;le glacis&lt;/em&gt;); Danish-French painter Camille Pissarro; Georges Seurat; C&eacute;zanne; diagram; code and color; the return to a flat color scheme (&lt;em&gt;r&eacute;gimes&lt;/em&gt;) with van Gogh and Paul Gauguin; the &lsquo;ribbon-structure&rsquo; (&lt;em&gt;la structure-ruban&lt;/em&gt;); Schopenhauer and color; and German-born American artist Josef Albers and his color theory.&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 two 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 02 juin 1981, Deleuze d&eacute;finit les r&eacute;gimes de la couleur selon trois caract&egrave;res. Les sujets de discussion comprennent: la peinture de la Renaissance; le peintre flamand/n&eacute;erlandais Jan Van Eyck et son &laquo;secret&raquo;; le peintre et &eacute;crivain breton Xavier de Langlais (Langleiz) et son &lt;em&gt;La technique de la peinture &agrave; l&#39;huile&lt;/em&gt;; les r&eacute;gimes de le couleur du 17&egrave;me si&egrave;cle; le Luminisme; les peintres italiens Caravage, Tintoret et Titien; l&#39;artiste flamand Peter Paul Rubens; Goethe et le glacis; le peintre danois-fran&ccedil;ais Camille Pissarro; Georges Seurat; C&eacute;zanne; Diagramme; code et couleur; le retour au r&eacute;gime de l&rsquo;aplat avec Van Gogh et Paul Gauguin; la structure-ruban; Schopenhauer et couleur; et l&#39;artiste am&eacute;ricain n&eacute; &agrave; l&#39;allemand Josef Albers et sa th&eacute;orie des couleurs.&lt;/p&gt;
description: Lecture given by French philosopher Gilles Deleuze at the University of Paris 8, 02 June 1981. This is lecture 8 of an 8-lecture seminar Deleuze taught between March and June 1981.