On Foucault 's Artistic View

Foucault’s artistic views have an important part in his whole thought, it’s necessary for us to understand him. Foucault’s did not explicitly put forward his artistic views in the painting comments, but instead of philosophic language. So when art meet philosophy and Magritte meet Foucault, we need to found on Foucault’s painting comments to analyze Foucault’s artistic views,starting from This is not a pipe, with the method of close reading and longitudinal comparing and the mutual corroboration of his painting views and philosophical thoughts.These artistic views not only have important significance for the traditional philosophy thinking, but also appropriate for the present problems in our modern life, for it guide us to think of the issue with a critical insight. So it is the unique artistic values confirmed Foucault’s responsibilities as a distinctive intellectual once again and the attitude of modernity. Art as a way of technologies of the self, which in the Foucault’s late thought of ethics-survival of aesthetics of the steering system, it is consistent with Foucault’s thought of "tell the truth".I started from the relationship of words and things of Foucault’s It’s not a pipe in the first part of the article and analyzed the relationship between the "words and things", which explained there is complex relationship between written and figurative elements. On this basis, the paper integrated the factors of resemblance and similitude and obtain the conclusion that painting is not affirmation for the existence of the similitude, with the analysis of the factors of resemblance and similitude.In the second part of this article, I analyzed of the reflection of non-pensant in Foucault’s thoughts, and took the The Birth of the Clinic:An Archaeology of Medical perception and Madness and Civilization as an example, analyzed the death and madness as non-pensant. In addition, I analyzed painting as a non-place, and its present characteristics. I analyzed the reason of Foucault turn to non-pensant which is based on Foucault’s overall thought as well as.The third part mainly analyzed how did the painting played its role as technologies of the self.The paper analyzed the subjustification of Foucault’s thought systems, unlike the subject in western philosophy. Foucault thought that subject was constructed, so this paper analyzed the ways that make the subject objectification, and designed to showed that the subject occupied a special position in the knowledge and power diagram, the subject is not only the embodiment of the relationship between power and knowledge, but also take up a high ground in thinking about the relationship between them at the same time, based on which, the subjectivity as well as transformation of subjectivity is put forward. And painting is tools as technologies of the self, so then, the paper made The Painting Of Manet for example, discussed that painting as a kind of technology of the self,on the points that painting placed invisible on the position of visible, and achieve the exhumation of self through gaze. And it is pointed out that this technology is a kind of boycott to the dominant technology of social power.The fourth part as a summary of the article, mainly analyzed that the significance of Foucault’s artistic views:it reflects Foucault’s empirical way of archaeology, the idea of the game of truth and the attitude of the modernity. At the same time, Foucault’s artistic views provide us with methods of reconstruction of subjectivity. Because the statement is subject to the existence of the language, so it should seek non-place of language, stripped significant of language.Because visibility is invisible, so we need to see, and make it as a kind of perception. Subject being the basis of resistance; we must be a kind of sub justification. It is the practice of watching and talking that come into being the truth problems, So Foucault is committed to seeking the history of truth. So in the rebellion to rationality, the paper presented irrationality artistic values. As a reaction against rationality tyranny, art eventually get to a state of nothingness.As the conclusion of the integral article, it stated briefly that the function of art in Foucault’s whole thought system, it is also a kind of evaluation of Foucault’s non-pensant. This alternative way of thinking, reflected Foucault’s transformation in the dilemma of the power,but the vanity construction of the non-pensant, ultimately bring Foucault himself into the maze.