Resonance in Dhvani Aesthetics and the Deleuzian Logic of Sensation

This paper undertakes an intersectional reading of visual art through theories of literary interpretation in Sanskrit poetics in close reading with Deleuze’s notions of sensation. The concept of Dhvani – the Indian theory of suggestion which can be translated as resonance, as explored in the Rasa –...

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Published in:Deleuze & Guattari Studies 2018-02, Vol.12 (1), p.29-44
Main Author: Kaikini, Srajana
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Aesthetics
Art history
Bacon, Francis (artist)
Cezanne, Paul (1839-1906)
Deleuze, Gilles
Interdisciplinary aspects
Intersectionality
Literary theory
Phenomenology
Poetics
Sensory perception
Visual arts
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Summary:This paper undertakes an intersectional reading of visual art through theories of literary interpretation in Sanskrit poetics in close reading with Deleuze’s notions of sensation. The concept of Dhvani – the Indian theory of suggestion which can be translated as resonance, as explored in the Rasa – Dhvani aesthetics offers key insights into understanding the mode in which sensation as discussed by Deleuze operates throughout his reflections on Francis Bacon’s and Cézanne’s works. The paper constructs a comparative framework to review modern and classical art history, mainly in the medium of painting, through an understanding of the concept of Dhvani, and charts a course of reinterpreting and examining possible points of concurrence and departure with respect to the Deleuzian logic of sensation and his notions of time-image and perception. The author thereby aims to move art interpretation’s paradigm towards a non-linguistic sensory paradigm of experience. The focus of the paper is to break the moulds of normative theorymaking which guide ideal conditions of ‘understanding art’ and look into alternative modes of experiencing the ‘vocabulary’ of art through trans-disciplinary intersections, in this case the disciplines being those of visual art, literature and phenomenology.
ISSN:2398-9777
2398-9785
DOI:10.3366/dlgs.2018.0294