The long-awaited series “Gilles Deleuze Lectures” has finally launched! The first installment is a little-known theory of art. “Gilles Deleuze Lectures: On Painting” will be released on November 19th.
Kawade Shobo Shinsha Press release: October 24, 2025 To Members of the Press [The long-awaited “Gilles Deleuze Lectures” series has finally launched!] The first installment is a little-known theory of art. “Gilles Deleuze Lectures: On Painting” will be released on November 19th. 2025 marks the 100th anniversary of Gilles Deleuze’s birth and 30 years since his death. This giant of contemporary thought pioneered an unparalleled “theory of art”! Kawade Shobo Shinsha Co., Ltd. (Headquarters: Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo; Representative Director: Onodera Masaru) will release “Lectures by Gilles Toulouse: On Painting” by Gilles Deleuze (edited by David Lapoujade, translated by Uno Kuniichi) on November 19, 2025.
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https://prcdn.freetls.fastly.net/release_image/12754/1079/12754-1079-a062790a35664cb25927ca55849c6783-3900×1549.jpg ■A fresh reading experience even for those who have already read Deleuze! Perfect for beginners The lecture notes were edited by David Lapoujade, one of Deleuze’s favorite students in his later years. He has already edited a collection of Deleuze’s texts after his death. In this series, he has done an excellent job, adding extremely detailed annotations that clearly explain the relationship to Deleuze’s major works and the background of his arguments. The translator of “On Painting” is Kuniichi Uno, who studied under Deleuze and actually attended his lectures. He has translated many of Deleuze’s works, including “Anti-Oedipus.” This book faithfully recreates the lecture, making it seem as if you were listening to it in a classroom. Even those who have already read Deleuze’s works will undoubtedly find this a fresh and exciting reading experience. It’s also recommended as a first book for beginners. ■ The first in the “Lecture Notes Series” is “On Painting.” A must-read for creators and art fans alike. Deleuze’s only book on painting was “Francis Bacon: The Logic of Sensation,” published in 1981. However, that same year, he intensively discussed painting in lectures. This book, “On Painting,” compiles these discussions. Francis Bacon isn’t the only one mentioned. This book covers a wide range of subjects, from Van Gogh and the Impressionists, who are popular in Japan and frequently exhibited, to Italian masters like Michelangelo and Caravaggio, and abstract painters like Kandinsky, Mondrian, and Pollock. This book examines the work of numerous artists from a fresh and profound perspective, offering insights that will revolutionize our understanding. This book is a must-read for anyone interested in Deleuze’s philosophy, as well as creators and art fans. We are currently working hard to prepare the second series of lecture notes, “On Spinoza.” Please look forward to future developments. ■Some introductions from the main text Image
URL: https://prcdn.freetls.fastly.net/release_image/12754/1079/12754-1079-34178f740498a3dba8dd70c798e74de1-653×653.jpg Joseph Mallord William Turner, “Light and Colour (Goethe’s Theory)—The Morning After the Deluge—Moses Writing the Book of Genesis” Exhibited in 1843, Tate Britain, London “A huge, magnificent ball of fire reigns over the painting, and a golden ball solidifies a kind of
gravitational pull on the whole painting. Why is this title important to me? [Omitted] In essence, Turner helps us to say this: Here we have an example, a profound transition from painting, which sometimes represents catastrophe in the form of an avalanche or a storm, to the infinitely deeper catastrophe involved in the act of painting. In this work, we see a transition to catastrophe that corrodes the act of painting. I would like to add that this catastrophe in the act of painting is inseparable from a birth. The birth of what? The birth of color. [Omitted] Yes, painting, the act of painting, goes through chaos or catastrophe. And they add. Only then does something emerge from it.” (From the text, pp. 27-28)
https://prcdn.freetls.fastly.net/release_image/12754/1079/12754-1079-811b99822af6182b2a0e2d4e603cca7e-440×550.jpg Vincent van Gogh, “Portrait of Joseph Roulin”1889, Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo (Netherlands) “Van Gogh always said that modern portraits must be painted in neutral tones. There is also the Gauguin formula, the Van Gogh formula. The great modern portrait in flat tones, flat tones that reproduce vivid tones, flesh and figures that reproduce neutral tones. It doesn’t matter whether it represents someone, whether it is a portrait or not. Because, in my view, the painter “(The color wheel) transcends the limitations of diametric opposition and the limit of progression from neighborhood to neighborhood. With the same effect of vivid colors and neutral colors, and the extraordinary freedom it affords, a new color space is acquired, a spatializing energy, a gravitational energy. I would almost say, the weight of neutral colors, and the spatiality of vivid colors.” (From the text, pp. 422-424) ■Table of contents *Although dates and centuries are written in Chinese numerals throughout this book, they are written in Arabic numerals in this press release for ease of reading. Preface / List of abbreviations and editions of Gilles Deleuze’s works Lecture on March 31, 1981 Catastrophe in Painting, From Turner to Cézanne – Deciphering Cézanne – Cézanne’s Two Moments: The Pre-Painting Condition of the Collision with Chaos and the Act of Painting as Catastrophe – Painting as a Synthesis of Time – Deciphering Klee – Klee’s Two Moments of the Gray Point: Gray-Chaos Point and Dimensional Gray-Matrix Point – Bacon’s Struggle with Conventionality and the Concept of Diagram – Van Gogh’s Diagrams April 7, 1981 Lecture Review of the previous lecture: The absurdity of the subject of the white page; Gérard Frominger’s method; Michelangelo: the figurative versus the iconographic; Drawing forces: the rolling force of sleep in Bacon; Screaming and vomiting: filth and Conrad’s The Negro of the Narcissus; Analysis of Bacon’s Painting (1946): the bird and the umbrella; Two kinds of analogy: common analogy (transfer of similarity) and aesthetic analogy (break of similarity) April 28, 1981 Lecture Five characteristics of diagrams: (1) chaos—germination; (2) manual characteristics—the hand freed from the eye; the diagram as a manual totality of line-smudges as opposed to the visual totality of line-color; (3) smudges and lines toward color and the pictorial line, the third eye; (4) producing dissimilar images—pictorial fact and mannerism; (5) the moderate path—a summary of the dangers of diagrams: the maximum diagram, i.e., the danger of chaos and abstract
expressionism; the minimum diagram, i.e., the danger of code and abstract painting, confronting the chaos of modern life; the moderate path, i.e., iconic painting as the suppression of chaos. Lecture May 5, 1981 Summary: Three positions on diagrams (expressionist, abstract, and iconographic), disruption, code, and diagram – Expressionism and manual diagrams (as opposed to purely optical space) – Codes in abstract painting – Semantic unity and binary choice – Manual, tactile, and digital – Analogy and digital – Homology of digital code – Analogy and similarity – Bateson and the dolphins – Grafting codes onto analogy – Modulation – Interpretation of Rousseau’s “Discourse on the Origin of Language” Lecture given on May 12, 1981 Review and reexamination of three forms of analogy: analogy by (physical) homology, analogy by (organic) internal relations, and analogy by (aesthetic) modulation – analogy and digital – the concept of modulation and its variations: mold, module, modulation – various spaces – signals – Egyptian space (ground, image, contour) – Egyptian rejection of the cube Lecture May 19, 1981 Goethe’s Proposal for a (Genetic) Triangle and a (Structural) Color Wheel – A Short History of Chromaticism: Delacroix and the Impressionists – Form, Ground, and Contour – Gauguin’s “The Beautiful Angel” – The Tactile Eye or the Third Eye: The Return of Egypt in Modern Painting – The Death of the Egyptian World and the Separation of the Plane – Tactile-Optical Greek Art Lecture on May 26, 1981 A short review of the previous lecture: Analogy, Modulation, Space-Signal – The Greeks and the Organic Line – Rhythm and Inner Mould in Greek Sculpture – Flesh and Color – Two Spaces: the 16th and 17th Centuries (Wölfflin) – Modulating Color – Delacroix, the Impressionists, and the Post-Impressionists Lecture June 2, 1981 Color regimes and their properties – Three methods of colorimetry – Color regimes in painting, namely the Renaissance regime – Two regimes of the 17th century, Caravaggio’s regime, Rubens’ regime – The dual path of the color wheel – Seurat and Pissarro – Cézanne and color – Van Gogh, Gauguin, and neutrals: color-structure and color-weight Translator’s afterword/Name index ■About the Author, Editor, and Translator Gilles Deleuze 1925-1995. French philosopher. Professor at the University of Paris VIII since 1969. The concepts of “difference,” “intensity,” “immanence,” and “becoming and
transformation,” which he created by critically inheriting the traditions of Western philosophy, continue to have a tremendous influence on a variety of fields to this day. His books include Difference and Repetition, The Logic of Meaning, Francis Bacon: The Logic of Sensation, and The Fold (all published by Kawade Shobo Shinsha), Cinema (Hosei University Press), and works co-authored with Felix Guattari, Anti-Oedipus, A Thousand Plateaus, and What is Philosophy? (all published by Kawade Shobo Shinsha). David Lapoujade Born in 1964. French philosopher. Currently a professor at the University of Paris 1. One of Deleuze’s favorite students, who studied under him in his later years. He is the editor of Deleuze’s posthumous works, “Deserted Island,” “Two Regimes of Madness,” and “Deleuze: Letters and Other Texts” (all published by Kawade Shobo Shinsha). His other books include “Deleuze: An Insane Movement” (Kawade Shobo Shinsha), “The Aesthetics of Small Survival,” and “Philosophy of a Breaking World: On Philip K. Dick” (all published by Getsuyosha). Uno Kuniichi Born in 1948. Professor Emeritus at Rikkyo University. Specializes in French literature, philosophy, and visual body theory. After graduating from Kyoto University, he studied under Deleuze at the University of Paris VIII. His books include Deleuze’s Philosophy of Flux and Inorganic Life (both published by Kodansha), and Paganism: The Ethics of a Pagan (Seidosha). His translations include works by Deleuze such as Anti-Oedipus, Francis Bacon: The Logic of Sensation, and The Fold, as well as Samuel Beckett’s How and Jean Genet’s Heliogabalus (both published by Kawade Shobo Shinsha, the latter a co-translation). ■ Bibliographic information Title: Gilles Deleuze Lecture Notes: On Painting Author: Gilles Deleuze Editor: David Lapoujade Translator: Kuniichi Uno Specifications: 46-page format / hardcover Number of pages: 448 pages / 4 pages of frontispiece First edition release date: November 19, 2025 Regular price: 4,180 yen (3,800 yen) ISBN: 978-4-309-22979-9
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https://prcdn.freetls.fastly.net/release_image/12754/1079/12754-1079-a903459bb2a18825b415569d993c03f9-1438×2082.jpg □Coming soon ○Release date: November 10, 2025 Kawade Bunko “Empiricism and Subjectivity ──Hume’s Essay on Human Nature” Gilles Deleuze, translated by Gen Kida and Osamu Zaitsu This important early work, based on a research paper written by Deleuze at the age of 22, is an original theory of Hume that reveals his precociousness as a philosopher and the beginnings of his later thought. The translation has been revised and is now available in paperback for the first time. Regular price: 1,650 yen (1,500 yen) ISBN: 978-4-309-46823-5 https://www.kawade.co.jp/np/isbn/9784309468235/ 〈Publication commemorating the 100th anniversary of the birth of Gilles Deleuze〉 The major work of Deleuze and Guattari, one of the most important philosophical works of our time, now available in a single-volume collector’s edition! ○Scheduled for publication in late December 2025 Anti-Oedipus—Capitalism and Schizophrenia Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, translated by Uno Kuniichi This book, which radically criticizes the state and capitalism from the perspective of “the body without organs” and moves toward schizophrenia analysis, deserves a rereading now. Theory of the unconscious, theory of desire, theory of the body, theory of the state, theory of capital, theory of art… This is the 20th century’s greatest provocation of thought, written in a magma-like style, aimed at future thought and practice. Price: ¥6,500 (excluding tax) Specifications: A5 size / hardcover / 480 pages ISBN: 978-4-309-22983-6 ○Scheduled for publication in February 2026 “A Thousand Plateaus” – Capitalism and Schizophrenia Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, translated by Kuniichi Uno et al. An extreme thought experiment by Deleuze and Guattari. Using new concepts such as rhizomes, abstract machines, and arrangements, they pierce the universe and the earth, liberating life. Considering facial features and lines of flight, they explore the process of becoming and transformation, moving toward the ritornello, the time-keeping sphere of the universe, and questioning the future of life and the people at the end of absolute deterritorialization. Estimated price: ¥8,000 (excluding tax) Specifications: A5 size / hardcover / 720 pages ISBN: 978-4-309-23176-1
