Francis Bacon, dolor y potencia del cuerpo. Una lectura Deleuziana

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Abstract

This article offers an interpretation of Bacons’s paintings focusing on the subject of the body. It takes advantage of Deleuze’s analysis, who, appealing particularly to his reception of Nietzsche and Spinoza, asks the question about the relationship between matter and the forces that animate it, what becomes perceptible in the body. This question aspires to redefine the comprehension of the same relationship between matter and form, which, according to Deleuze’s interpretation of Bacon, has to be read as limit-tension or limit-spatialization. In this way, on the basis of Bacon’s work, it will be stressed the meaning of particular stylistic conceptions not only for art history and for the history of philosophy.