This Is Not a Pipe - Couverture souple

Foucault, Michel

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0520049160 ISBN 13 : 9780520049161

Editeur : University of California Press, 1983

Synopsis

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.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of California Press
• Date d'édition: 1983
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0520049160
• ISBN 13: 9780520049161
• Reliure: Broché
• Illustrateur: Magritte Rene
• Nombre de pages: 112
• Éditeur: Harkness James
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