Deleuze on Music, Painting, and the Arts

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

"After these books are published, there will be no need for anyone else to write a how-to-understand-Deleuze book. The clarity of the prose, the careful explanation of each difficult and important concept, and the lack of any jargon whatsoever make this the definitive commentary on Deleuze." -- Dorothea Olkowski, University of Colorado