Categorii: Necatalogate, Neclasificat
Limba: Engleza
Data publicării: 2008
Editura: University of California Press
Tip copertă: Paperback
Nr Pag: 104
Colectie: Quantum Books
Traducatori: James Harkness
Ilustrator: Rene Magritte
ISBN: 9780520236943
Dimensiuni: l: 12.8cm | H: 20.4cm | 0.7cm | 126g
What does it mean to write "This is not a pipe" across a bluntly literal painting of a pipe? Rene 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.