# Gilles Deleuze (2003). *Francis Bacon: The Logic of Sensation*. : Continuum. > [!INFO] > Type:: [[book]] > Title:: Francis Bacon: The Logic of Sensation > Author(s): [[Gilles Deleuze]] > Year:: NaN > Tags:: > DOI:: > Citekey:: deleuze_francis_2003 > ZoteroURI:: [Open in Zotero: Francis Bacon: The Logic of Sensation](zotero://select/items/@deleuze_francis_2003) > ReviewedDate:: [[2023-09-25]] ## Citation ```latex [@deleuze_francis_2003] ``` ## Related ```dataview TABLE file.aliases AS "Title" FROM [[@deleuze_francis_2003]] and -"Plans" and -"resources" ``` ## Summary - ## Annotation ### 122 - Alois Riegl defined it as follows [[@riegl_late_1985]]: 1. Bas-relief brings about the most rigid link between the eye and the hand because its element is the flat surface, which allows the eye to function like the sense of touch; furthermore, it confers, and indeed imposes, upon the eye a tactile, or rather haptic, function; it thereby ensures, in the Egyptian "will to art," the joining together of the two senses of touch and sight, like the soil and the horizon. 2. It is a frontal and close view that assumes this haptic function, since the form and the ground lie on the same plane of the surface, equally close to each other and to ourselves. 3. **What separates and unites both the form and the ground is the contour as their common limit.** 4. It is the rectilinear contour, or regular curve, that isolates the form as an essence, a closed unity that is shielded from all accident, change, deformation, and corruption; essence acquires a formal and linear presence that dominates the flux of existence and representation. 5. It is thus a geometry of the plane, of the line, and of essence that inspires Egyptian bas-relief; but it will also incorporate volume by covering the funerary cube with a pyramid] that is, by erecting a Figure that only reveals to us the unitary surface of isosceles triangles on clearly limited sides. 6. It is not only man and the world that in this way receive their planar or linear essence; it is also the animal and the vegetal, the sphinx and the lotus, which are raised to their perfect geometrical form, whose very mystery is the mystery of essence. ### Related ```dataview LIST FROM [[@deleuze_francis_2003]] and -"Plans" and -"resources" ```