Deleuze on Music, Painting, and the Arts

Bogue provides a systematic overview and introduction to Deleuze's writings on music and painting, and an assessment of their position within his aesthetics as a whole. Deleuze on Music, Painting and the Arts breaks new ground in the scholarship on Deleuze's aesthetics, while providing a clear and accessible guide to his often overlooked writings in the fields of music and painting.

Ronald Bogue is Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Georgia. He has written widely on the work of Deleuze and Guattari, and aesthetics.

List of Abbreviations Introduction Part I: Music 1. Music Naturans: Deterritorializing the Refrain Music and Cosmos in Antiquity Rhythm and the Refrain From Milieus to Territories Messiaen and the Composition of Time The Music of the Birds 2. Music in Time: History and Becoming Becoming-Woman, Becoming-Child Transverse Becomings of Musical Invention Classical Form, Romantic Variation The Problem of the People Varèse and the Modern Sound Machine Cosmic People and the Problem of Discernibility 3. Natura Musicians: Territory and the Refrain Ethology and Territoriality Von Uexküll and Musical Milieus Ruyer and the Melodies of Developmental Biology Structural Coupling and Natural Drift Function and Aesthetics The Autonomous Refrain Part II: Painting 4. Faces Hand and Mouth, Tool and Face Regimes of Signs and the Faces of Power White Wall, Black Hole The Abstract Machine of Faciality The Face and the Gaze From the Gaze to the Face Deterritorializing the Face Primitive Heads, Christ-Face, Probe-Heads 5. Forces The Figural Systole and Diastole The Brutality of Fact Forces 6. Color Analogical Modulation Haptic and Optic Ground and Foundation Excursus on the Gothic Line Haptic Colorism Analog Diagrammatic Modulation Part III: The Arts 7. Sensation and the Plane of Composition Sensation Plane of Immanence, Plane of Composition Virtual and Possible Conclusion Specific Domains Elective Affinities Works Cited