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.
- ISBN10 0520236947
- ISBN13 9780520236943
- Publish Date 1 July 2008 (first published 16 August 1983)
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country US
- Imprint University of California Press
- Edition 2nd edition
- Format Paperback (US Trade)
- Pages 104
- Language English