This Is Not a Pipe
, by Foucault, MichelNote: Supplemental materials are not guaranteed with Rental or Used book purchases.
- ISBN: 9780520236943 | 0520236947
- Cover: Paperback
- Copyright: 7/1/2008
What does it mean to write "This is not a pipe" across a bluntly literal painting of a pipe? Reneacute; 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.