In Visions de Mandiargues, an essay on André Pieyre de Mandiargues (1909-1991), writer, poet, art critic, second-generation Surrealist and author passionate about the image, with which he constantly irrigated his writing, the works or testimonies of his contemporaries are first invited: writers (André Breton, Alejandra Pizarnik, William Burroughs), artists (Leonor Fini, René Magritte, Wifredo Lam), photographers (Hans Bellmer, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Man Ray) and filmmakers (Michelangelo Antonioni, Walerian Borowczyk, Nelly Kaplan). But also, through brief imagined and unexpected liaisons, appear quotations from the works of contemporary artists whose universe reflects his aesthetic in many respects: in painting (Claude Lévêque, David Reed, Philip Taaffe), photography (Martine Aballéa, Denis Roche, Hiroshi Sugimoto), video (Kenneth Anger, Eija-Liisa Ahtila, Bill Viola), theatre (Jan Fabre, Jacques Vincey, Krzysztof Warlikowski) and cinema (David Lynch, Raoul Ruiz, Apichatpong Weerasethakul). Themes such as the work of Marcel Duchamp or the baroque, the art of gardens or semiology, eroticism or the plasticity of mental images, the notion of genre or that of the artist's book make up the essay in order to approach the incandescent modernity of his writing. Finally, photographs by Bernard Plossu, Bona Pieyre de Mandiargues, Florence Chevallier, Érik Bullot, Gérard Macé, Nicolas Comment, Sara Imloul, Kourtney Roy, Muriel Pic and Françoise Nuñez open each chapter as an invitation from the image to the writing that might echo it.