Deleuze on Music, Painting, and the Arts

Central to Deleuze's theory of the arts are his writings on music and painting. As Ronald Bogue shows in a series of clear and incisive analyses, Deleuze's approach to music grows out of his cosmology, while his treatment of painting arises from his conception of the body's relation to sensation and force. What music and painting disclose for Deleuze are the complementary relations between corporeal experience and natural creative processes that shape all the arts, making them at once cosmic and affective modes of thought. This is the first detailed study of Deleuze's writings on music and painting, which are among the most daring and provocative of all his philosophical texts. Essential reading for anyone interested in music, painting, and the theory of the arts. Book jacket.

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