This Is Not a Pipe
What does it mean to write "This is not a pipe" across a bluntly literal painting of a pipe? René Magritte's famous canvas provides the starting point for a delightful homage by French philosopher and historian Michel Foucault. Much better known for his incisive and mordant explorations of power...
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What does it mean to write "This is not a pipe" across a bluntly literal painting of a pipe? René Magritte's famous canvas provides the starting point for a delightful homage by French philosopher and historian Michel Foucault. Much better known for his incisive and mordant explorations of power and social exclusion, Foucault here assumes a more playful stance. By exploring the nuances and ambiguities of Magritte's visual critique of language, he finds the painter less removed than previously thought from the pioneers of modern abstraction.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780520236943 (0520236947)
Publish date: July 1st 2008
Publisher: University of California Press
Pages no: 104
Edition language: English
Category:
Non Fiction,
Writing,
Essays,
Humanities,
Language,
Cultural,
Criticism,
Art,
Philosophy,
France,
Theory,
Architecture,
Art History
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