Author: Michel Foucault
Portuguese translation: Jorge Coli
First printed edition: 1973
Digitized edition: 2004

In this essay, Foucault starts from René Magritte’s versions of The Treachery of Images to examine the relationships between image, word, resemblance, similitude and representation. The text discusses the calligram, Klee, Kandinsky and Magritte, and the autonomy of words and images.

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Portuguese digital edition by Coletivo Sabotagem; the file identifies itself as freely distributable.