This Is Not a Pipe

Volume 24
2. 2. Auflage, 25th Anniversa Auflage 2008
ISBN: 978-0-520-23694-3
Verlag: University of California Press

Buch, Englisch, Band 24, 104 Seiten, Trade Paperback, Format (B × H): 129 mm x 202 mm, Gewicht: 123 g

Reihe: Quantum Books

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Foucault, Michel

Harkness, James

Weitere Mitwirkende

Magritte, René

Harkness, James

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstgeschichte Kunstgeschichte: 20./21. Jahrhundert Surrealismus, Abstrakter Expressionismus
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstformen, Kunsthandwerk Malerei: Gemälde
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunst, allgemein Einzelne Künstler: Biographien, Monografien

Über Autor(innen)

One of the most important theorists of the twentieth century, Michel Foucault's (1926-1984) many influential books include Discipline and Punish, The Archeology of Knowledge, The History of Sexuality, and The Discourse on Language.