Between 1962 and 1975, without interrupting his work in the archives, Foucault turned to the formulation of the basic theoretical and epistemological principles of the discipline, which later became known as the archeology of knowledge. In the short essay “This is not a pipe,” the method is coined and the paths of his thoughts intersect. In each work of this period, Foucault explores various kinds of historical transformations, which undergoes the sociocultural and aesthetic symbolism of vision ("look"). Foucault's commentary on Magritte's painting is just one of his many "pictorial" comments. How can one not recall his own description, almost endless, of Velázquez’s painting “Las Meninas” (the introductory text “Ladies of the Court” from the book “Words and Things. Archeology of the Humanities”) or the strange fate of his book about Manet? Foucault refuses to follow the phenomenological tradition , eliminates the concept of intentionality from his research and introduces the opposition to speak/see (dire/voir), which later became the basis of the conceptual framework of the “archeology of knowledge” Contents: Michel Foucault. This is not a pipe 5I Here are two pipes 9II Disassembled calligram 15III. , Magritte 37IV. The silent work of words 44V. Seven seals of affirmation 55VI. To draw - not to assert 72Appendix 75Two letters of Rene Magritte 75NOTES 81B. The road. Obsessiveness of the gaze M. Foucault and painting 83INTRODUCTION 851. The eyesore 952. “Objects” by Rene Magritte 112 3 . "Seeing as", Seeing as 1254. Laughter 131Notes 139Illustrations by René Magritte 145