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This Is Not a Pipe

Door Michel Foucault

Categorie
Filosofie
Boeknummer
#339619-XF17
Titel
This Is Not a Pipe
Auteur
Foucault, Michel
Boektype
Paperback
Druk
2e druk
Uitgeverij
University of California Press
Jaar van uitgave
2008
ISBN10
0520236947
ISBN13
9780520236943
Taal
Engels
Beschrijving
Paperback, 66 pages + illustrations in b/w, translated and edited by James Harkness, illustrations and letters by René Magritte, 8vo.
Samenvatting
What does it mean to write "This is not a pipe" across a bluntly literal painting of a pipe? By exploring the nuances and ambiguities of Magritte's visual critique of language, the author finds the painter less removed than previously thought from the pioneers of modern abstraction.

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 previo
... (Lees verder)usly thought from the pioneers of modern abstraction.
Pagina's
-
Conditie
Goed
Prijs
€ 12,50

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