Deleuze's Lectures on Painting - Reading Group

Catastrophe is at the heart of the act of painting...

After the course on Spinoza, we are now reading Deleuze's course on painting, a series of 8 lectures he gave in 1981. But instead of discussing two lectures per session, as we have done until now, we will read each lecture in combination with a selection of texts written by artists and art historians that he references or comments on in his classes (Klee, Bacon, Greenberg, etc.). Mostly brief and varied in style, the discussion of these texts will be a way of getting out of Deleuze in order to return to his thought on painting and art with new tools.

Next time we will ask ourselves some of these questions: Can there be creation without catastrophe? What is the relation between the act of painting and the catastrophe? What is a diagram? How could we cultivate, whether we are artists or not, an intuitive awareness that brings us closer to life, closer to the “appleyness” of everything? What is the place of clichés in the creation of the new? And what is the place of intuition?

We hope you can join!

NEXT TIME (April 6, 16:00 to 18:00 GMT-7): We will discuss Lecture 1 + D.H. Lawrence on Cézanne

Here you can find the text on Cézanne by D. H. Lawrence:
http://degustibus.pbworks.com/f/Lawrence+on+Cezanne.pdf

Here you can find Deleuze’s lectures on painting:
https://deleuze.cla.purdue.edu/seminars/painting-and-question-concepts

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In this reading group, we approach Deleuze's philosophy through the reading and discussion of a multiplicity of texts produced beside his major philosophical works: transcripts of interviews, courses, letters, dialogues with colleagues, etc., all of which have a special richness and liveliness. So far, we have read the ABC interview and Deleuze’s course on Spinoza.

People with different backgrounds and from different parts of the world are welcome to join in. No specific knowledge of philosophy is required. The only requisite is to read the material for each session, because discussions are on topic.

We get together online every two weeks to discuss what we have read and share our thoughts in a respectful and horizontal way. Each session is a little exercise in horizontality and self-organization, since there is no leader or moderator.

There is a Facebook group where we can continue to share all kinds of things about the philosophy of Deleuze (and Guattari too!), links, videos, notes, as well as creations of the participants themselves that emerge in resonance with what we are reading.

https://www.facebook.com/groups/442094586862825

If you have any doubts, comments or for any other reason, please send me a message.