
This Is Not a Pipe
Michel Foucault(Author)
James Harkness(Editor)
University of California Press
1st Edition
Published on 16. August 1983
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112 pages
978-0-520-04916-1 (ISBN)
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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 the French philosopher-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 - "confronting them and within a common system, a figure at once opposed and complementary." Foucault's brief but extraordinarily rich essay offers a startling, highly provocative view of a painter whose influence and popularity continue to grow unchecked. "This is Not a Pipe" also throws a new, piquantly dancing light on Foucault himself.
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First Edition
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English
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Berkerley
United States
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College/higher education
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Height: 203 mm
Width: 127 mm
Thickness: 0 mm
Weight
136 gr
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978-0-520-04916-1 (9780520049161)
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List of Plates Acknowledgments Translator's Introduction 1. Two Pipes 2. The Unraveled Calligram 3. Klee, Kandinsk, Magritte 4. Burrowing Words 5. Seven Seals of Affirmation 6. Nonaffirmative Painting Two Letters by Rene Magritte Notes Index Plates