This is not a pipe

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This volume contains the author's classic essay on the complex relationship between language and image in René Magritte's iconic painting. What does it mean to write "This is not a pipe" across a bluntly literal painting of a pipe? The painting is not a pipe, but rather an image of a pipe, which was Magritte's point. 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 abstractio…

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Title Statements

Full title :This is not a pipe / Michel Foucault ; with illustrations and letters by René Magritte ; translated and edited by James Harkness

Summary

This volume contains the author's classic essay on the complex relationship between language and image in René Magritte's iconic painting. What does it mean to write "This is not a pipe" across a bluntly literal painting of a pipe? The painting is not a pipe, but rather an image of a pipe, which was Magritte's point. 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. The author's essay offers a view of a painter whose influence and popularity continue to grow unchecked

Edition Statements

Publication Date:2008
Edition:[25. anniversary ed., 2nd paperback ed.]

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):University of California Press
Place of Publication:Berkeley, Calif
Language:eng
Publication Date:2008

Notes

Originaltitel: Ceci n'est pas une pipe. (English)

Originally published: 1983

The Physical Object

Description:x, 66 s., 22 unnumbered s. of plates : : illustrations ; : 21 cm

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9780520236943, 0520236947
oclc:on1238003219
Dewey Decimal:759.9493

Translator's introduction -- THIS IS A PIPE -- 1. Two pipes -- 2. The unraveled calligram -- 3. Klee, Kandinsky, Magritte -- 4. Burrowing words -- 5. Seven seals of affirmation -- 6. Nonaffirmative painting -- Two letters / Rene Magritte