Foucault's Philosophy of Art: A Genealogy of Modernity tells the
story of how art shed the tasks with which it had traditionally
been charged in order to become modern. Joseph J. Tanke offers the
first complete examination of Michel Foucault's reflections on
visual art, tracing his thought as it engages with the work of
visual artists from the seventeenth century to the contemporary
period. The book offers a concise and accessible introduction to
Foucault's frequently anthologized, but rarely understood, analyses
of Diego Velazquez's Las Meninas and Rene Magritte's Ceci n'est pas
une pipe. On the basis of unpublished lecture courses and several
un-translated analyses of visual art, Tanke reveals the uniquely
genealogical character of Foucault's writings on visual culture,
allowing for new readings of his major texts in the context of
contemporary Continental philosophy, aesthetic and cultural theory.
Ultimately Tanke demonstrates how Foucault provides philosophy and
contemporary criticism with the means for determining a conception
of modern art.
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