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Title: This Is Not a Pipe by Michel Foucault, James Harkness, Rene Magritte ISBN: 0-520-04916-0 Publisher: University of California Press Pub. Date: November, 1989 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $13.37 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.33 (6 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: intermixture of thought, play, and literary drum 'n' bass
Comment: This essay entitled "This Is Not A Pipe" is a fascinating excursion into the intriguing art of the great 20th C. Belgian painter. In this essay Foucault blurs the space between the critic and the subject being criticized. His thorough analysis inculcates his own hypertextual "isms" and replicating terminology that adequately reciprocates Magritte's offbeat beauty. From Foucault's view of what he considers the two principles that ruled painting (European painting?) from the 15th C. to the 20th C., to the relationship between resemblance and similitude, the mystery and static of a Magritte painting is transported onto the pages of this book. Ultimately this text is an interesting display of the interplay between text, image and the elements inculcated in the analysis thereof.
Rating: 5
Summary: a fine work
Comment: if you consider this treacle then you certainly lack any real insight into philosophy or art criticism of the 20th century; either that, or you're carrying some kind of baggage or childish grudge.
foucault offers us just one interpretation of magritte's _pipe_, and some thought in general about art, representation and the sign. it's really just part of an on-going discussion. it's a shame he's dead; he'd have loved usenet.
in any case, this book is one voice in a chorus of discussion on the matter; his is also an informed, intelligent, and original voice - albeit controversial (see review below for ruffled feathers).
this book stands on its own, but is definetly not a good introduction to foucault per se; I think it's best to start with a history of sexuality volume I, then read the introduction of history of sexuality volume II, and then you can pretty much read any foucault from there.
Rating: 4
Summary: Language is a Prison
Comment: I read this in college while studying semiotics and surrealism, yet the message of Foucault should not be relegated to the exotic and extreme "isms" of academia. I found "Pipe" to be a marvelous and playful illustration of the tryanny of language and the Orwellian control of thought which follows. Readers of Postmodern thought, Zen, Marxism, Film Theory, Psychoanlysis, and Modern Art will find moments of illumination throughout.
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Title: The Order of Things : An Archaeology of Human Sciences by Michel Foucault ISBN: 0679753354 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 29 March, 1994 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: The Portable Magritte by Robert Hughes ISBN: 0789306654 Publisher: Universe Books Pub. Date: 07 December, 2001 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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Title: The New Paradigm in Architecture: The Language of Postmodernism by Charles Jencks ISBN: 0300095139 Publisher: Yale Univ Pr Pub. Date: 01 August, 2002 List Price(USD): $35.00 |
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Title: Magritte by Suzi Gablik ISBN: 0500201994 Publisher: Thames & Hudson Pub. Date: May, 1985 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Mythologies by Roland Barthes, Annette Lavers ISBN: 0374521506 Publisher: Noonday Press Pub. Date: 01 January, 1972 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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