Michel Foucault had been concerned about painting and the meaning of the image from his earliest publications, yet this aspect of his thought is largely neglect

Offers the first complete examination of Foucault's reflections on visual art, leading to new readings of his major texts.

In this encounter between one of the twentieth century greatest philosophical minds and an artist fundamental to our understanding of the development of modern

What does it mean to write "This is not a pipe" across a bluntly literal painting of a pipe? René Magritte's famous canvas provides the starting point for a de

"Originally delivered as a lecture in Tunis in 1971, here translated into English for the first time, the text takes the form of a commentary on thirteen of Man