The Art of
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134<br />
14<br />
In his book about<br />
Francis Bacon’s work,<br />
Gilles Deleuze distinguishes<br />
between the<br />
figurative and the<br />
Figure (“figural”).<br />
While figurative work<br />
is illustrative, narrative,<br />
and signifying (it<br />
represents an object or<br />
narrates a story) the<br />
Figure is something<br />
like pure form. Gilles<br />
Deleuze, Francis<br />
Bacon: <strong>The</strong> Logic <strong>of</strong><br />
Sensation, London /<br />
New York: Continuum,<br />
2003, p. 34.<br />
<strong>of</strong> those repeated juxtapositions <strong>of</strong> bodies and corpses a Figure 14 was<br />
formed, an outcome <strong>of</strong> shock. This Figure pointed out the extremities<br />
<strong>of</strong> modern civilisation, while placing itself between the emerging spectacle—<strong>of</strong><br />
media, fashion, entertainment and eventually art itself—and<br />
horror. It featured a body that after Auschwitz had been expropriated<br />
from itself as a private, personal site and became public.<br />
TAL STERNGAST