History & The Arts
Artists and authorship: the case of Raphael
...becomes the most interesting aspect of the work. According to Foucault, critics invent a variable idea of an author and of authorship that depends entirely upon their own preconceptions. An important contribution by Foucault is what he calls the ‘discourse’ surrounding an author. Foucault developed the idea of a ‘discursive formation’ as an alternative to...
