Francis Bacon : the logic of sensation / Gilles Deleuze ; translated and with an introduction by Daniel W. Smith ; afterword by Tom Conley.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Francis Bacon: The logic of sensation -- The round area, the ring -- Note on figuration in past painting -- Athleticism -- Body, meat, and spirit: Becoming-animal -- Recapitulative note: Bacon's periods and aspects -- Painting and sensation -- Hysteria -- Painting forces -- Couples and triptychs -- Note: What is a triptych? -- The painting before painting -- The diagram -- Analogy -- Painters recapitulate the history of painting in their own way -- Bacon's trajectory -- Note on color -- The eye and the hand -- A politics of fact and figure / Tom Conley.

"First published in French in 1981, Francis Bacon has come to be recognized as one of Gilles Deleuze's most significant texts in aesthetics. Anticipating his work on cinema, the baroque, and literary criticism, the book can be read not only as a study of Bacon's paintings but also as a crucial text within Deleuze's broader philosophy of art. In it, Deleuze creates a series of philosophical concepts, each of which relates to a particular aspect of Bacon's paintings but at the same time finds a place in the "general logic of sensation.""--Jacket.