enough. It amounts to the postface for a collective work edited by Jean-Marie Floch and entitled De l'abstrait au figuratif, which for "technical reasons beyond our control" was never published. Thus it would be advisable to read it both as an anticipation of Floch's Petites mythologies de l'oeil et de l'esprit and a wellintentioned interpretation of Felix Thfirlemann's Paul Klee.1 The present text, which goes back some time and is perhaps a bit out of date, deserves to be published if only because it retraces the slow development to maturity of our visual semiotics workshop, first set up by our friend Abraham Zemsz and since then led without interruption and with great determination by Jean-Marie Floch (with the collaboration of Felix Thirlemann, Denis Alken, Diana Pessoa de Barros, Ada Dewes, Alain Vergniaud, and others). Jean-Marie Floch expertly led this theoretical project and coordinated important concrete analyses. The present author limited his role to that of observer and advisor.