This Is Not a Pipe, Paperback / softback Book

This Is Not a Pipe Paperback / softback

Edited by James Harkness

Illustrated by Rene Magritte

Part of the Quantum Books series

Paperback / softback

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What does it mean to write "This is not a pipe" 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.

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