This Is Not a Pipe, 2nd Edition [#955668]

Free Download This Is Not a Pipe, 2nd Edition (Quantum Books) by Michel Foucault, edited by James Harkness
English | November 15, 2023 | ISBN: 9780520353411, 0520236947 | True EPUB | 96 pages | 6 MB
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.