Status
Available
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Publication
University of California Press (2008), Edition: Second Edition, 25th Anniversary Edition, Paperback, 104 pages
Description
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.
Physical description
104 p.; 5 inches
Language
Original publication date
1973
ISBN
0520236947 / 9780520236943