Art, Philosophy and Cinematography: A Note on the Aesthetics Beyond Representation and Figuration

Abstract

In his book Francis Bacon: The Logic of Sensation, Gilles Deleuze explores certain art techniques in the paintings of Francis Bacon to illuminate the politics of aesthetics. He demonstrates how some of those paintings allow us to move from the problematic field of (political)representation to the conditions of representations and from the field of reason to that of the logic of sensation. He demonstrates this by way of bridging the gap between modern art and philosophy. In my paper, I follow Delueze’s method and try to search for some more artistic techniques in Francis Bacon. Then I draw some parallels between these art techniques with the politics of aesthetics in the film genre by focusing on Tom Tykwer’s 1998 film Lola Rennt.