• This is not a Pipe 25th Anniversary Edition (Quantum Books): Volume 24

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This is not a Pipe 25th Anniversary Edition (Quantum Books)Volume 24

by Michel Foucault

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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.

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Author: Michel Foucault (all their books in stock)
Format: Paperback
Published: 2008
Pages: 66
Publisher: University of California Press
ISBN: 9780520236943

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