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What does it mean to write "This is not a pipe" across a bluntly literal painting of a pipe? Ren� Magritte's famous canvas provides the starting point for a delightful homage by the French philosopher-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--"confronting them and within a common system, a figure at once opposed and complementary." Foucault's brief but extraordinarily rich essay offers a startling, highly provocative view of a painter whose influence and popularity continue to grow unchecked. This is Not a Pipe also throws a new, piquantly dancing light on Foucault himself.
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This is Not a Pipe. With illustrations and letters by Rene Magritte, Michel Foucault
- Langue
- Année de publication
- 1983
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- Langue
- Anglais
- Auteurs
- Michel Foucault
- Publié
- 1983
- Format
- souple
- Pages
- 66
- ISBN10
- 0520049160
- ISBN13
- 9780520049161
- Séries
- Mots clés
- Fiction, Histoires vraies, Thématique philosophique, Classiques, France, Presse d'opinion & Essais, Théories scientifiques
- Première publication
- 1973
- Titre original
- Ceci n'est pas une pipe
- Évaluation
- 3,9 sur 5
- Description
- What does it mean to write "This is not a pipe" across a bluntly literal painting of a pipe? Ren� Magritte's famous canvas provides the starting point for a delightful homage by the French philosopher-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--"confronting them and within a common system, a figure at once opposed and complementary." Foucault's brief but extraordinarily rich essay offers a startling, highly provocative view of a painter whose influence and popularity continue to grow unchecked. This is Not a Pipe also throws a new, piquantly dancing light on Foucault himself.