ABSTRACT
The arts figure prominently in Deleuze. G and Guattari's writing, with frequent reference being made to philosophy and architecture, film, literature, dance, art and music. This chapter considers the implications of percepts, affects and concepts for arts education as employed by Deleuze and Guattari in their final publication What is Philosophy? (WP) (1994). Art, for Deleuze and Guattari, emanates from 'desire', the motivation for life, a force field where the artist responds to both material and non-material properties of an artwork. They explain that percepts are 'no longer perceptions; they are independent of a state of those who experience them'. The link to the artist reveals the percept as the envelopment in the natural, the non-human world. Affects, for Deleuze and Guattari: are no longer feelings or affections; they go beyond the strength of those who undergo them. For Deleuze and Guattari, concepts have their own plane of immanence within forces of change.
