| Title | : | This Is Not a Pipe |
|---|---|---|
| Author | : | Michel Foucault & James Harkness |
| Release | : | 2023-11-15 |
| Kind | : | ebook |
| Genre | : | Art & Architecture, Books, Arts & Entertainment, Nonfiction, Philosophy, Fiction & Literature, Aesthetics, Biographies & Memoirs |
| Size | : | 8679428 |
| 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. |
