This is not a pipe

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Title:

This is not a pipe

Author:

Foucault, Michel, 1926-1984.

ISBN:

9780520236943

Personal Author:

Foucault, Michel, 1926-1984.

Uniform Title:

Ceci n'est pas une pipe. English

Edition:

[25th anniversary ed., 2nd paperback ed.]

Publication Information:

Berkeley, Calif. : University of California Press, 2008.

Physical Description:

x, 66 p., [22] p. of plates : ill. ; 21 cm.

General Note:

Originally published: 1983.

Personal Subject:

Magritte, Renâe, 1898-1967-Criticism and interpretation.

Subject Term:

Art -- Philosophy.

Added Author:

Magritte, Renâe, 1898-1967.

Harkness, J. A. (James A.)

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Searching... 1:IIEMSA	1:GEN-BOOK	33168025452265	759.9493 F762T 1983	1	Searching... Unknown

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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