This Is Not a Pipe (Quantum Books)

Michel Foucault

ISBN 10: 0520049160 / ISBN 13: 9780520049161

Verlag: University of California Press, 1983

Good condition. A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers M11A-04677

Inhaltsangabe:

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 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.

Bibliografische Details

Titel: This Is Not a Pipe (Quantum Books)
Verlag: University of California Press
Erscheinungsdatum: 1983
Einband: Softcover
Illustrator: Rene Magritte
Zustand: Good