This Is Not a Pipe Sculpture ' - Australian Women's Weekly

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This Is Not a Pipe Sculpture ' - Australian Women's WeeklyWhat does it mean to write "This is not a pipe" across a bluntly literal painting of a pipe? Ren 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