As some of you may be aware, Foucault intended at one point to write a book
about Manet, with a provisional title of Le noir et la surface. Apparently
he destroyed the manuscript but lectured on Manet in Tunisia.
The lecture 'La peinture de Manet' was published (illegally) in Tunisia in
1989, but this is not the easiest thing to find. There is a useful
discussion in Gary Shapiro, Archaeologies of Vision: Foucault and Nietzsche
on Seeing and Saying, U Chicago Press, 2003.
Now the publication is (seemingly) going to be made official.
http://www.amazon.fr/exec/obidos/ASIN/2020585375/qid=1080719943/sr=1-1/ref=s
r_1_0_1/171-5919034-8823426
The volume includes Foucault's lecture, and some commentaries on it.
The blurb also notes that a companion volume of lectures from Tunisia on
structuralism and madness is forthcoming in the autumn. Given that it was an
interview in Tunisia in which Foucault, to my mind, best clarified his
relation to structuralism, this is interesting looking stuff!
Stuart
Dr Stuart Elden
Lecturer in Political Geography
Department of Geography
University of Durham
Durham, DH1 3LE
www.geography.dur.ac.uk/information/staff/elden.html