Representation and presentation : the Deleuzian image

A few works have now been dedicated to Deleuze's cinema books and have discussed the relation between Bergson and Deleuze. While there are inevitably points of overlap, this is a complex problem and my point of focus differs from studies that have appeared so far. That is, nothing has yet been written concerning the pairing of the concepts of representation and presentation in relation to the image in Deleuze, yet this is crucial to my argument here. The purpose of this essay is to look at the role of the image, from a cognitive perspective, as an interaction between notions of 'presentation' and 'representation', and to use this distinction in order to begin to develop an understanding of how the image might work in art.