BOOKS - This Is Not a Pipe
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This Is Not a Pipe
Author: Michel Foucault
Year: January 15, 1968
Format: PDF
File size: PDF 15 MB
Language: English
Year: January 15, 1968
Format: PDF
File size: PDF 15 MB
Language: English
What does it mean to write and "This is not a pipe and " across a bluntly literal painting of a pipe? Rene 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.
