Michel Foucault: This Is Not a Pipe (1973–) [ES, EN, PT, SK, RU]
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“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 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.”
Originally published in French as Ceci n’est pas une pipe, Fata Morgana, Montpellier, 1973
English edition
Translated and Edited by James Harkness
With Illustrations and Letters by Rene Magritte
Publisher University of California Press, Berkeley/Los Angeles/London, 1983
ISBN 0520042328, 9780520042322
66 pages
Review (Marcel Chabot)
Publisher (EN)
Esto no es una pipa (Spanish, trans. Francisco Monge, 4th ed., 1981/1997, updated on 2014-6-6)
This Is Not a Pipe (English, trans. James Harkness, 1983, updated on 2014-7-4)
Isto não é um cachimbo (Portuguese, trans. Jorge Coli, 5th ed., 1988/2008, added on 2014-2-24)
Toto nie je fajka (Slovak, trans. Miroslav Marcelli, 1994, no OCR)
Eto ne trubka (Russian, trans. Irina Kulik, 1999, added on 2014-6-6)
Jeffrey Saletnik, Robin Schuldenfrei (eds.): Bauhaus Construct: Fashioning Identity, Discourse and Modernism (2009)
Filed under book | Tags: · architecture, art, bauhaus, copyright, critical theory, design, painting, photography
Reconsidering the status and meaning of Bauhaus objects in relation to the multiple re-tellings of the school’s history, this volume positions art objects of the Bauhaus within the theoretical, artistic, historical, and cultural concerns in which they were produced and received.
Contributions from leading scholars writing in the field today – including Frederic J. Schwartz, Magdalena Droste, and Alina Payne – offer an entirely new treatment of the Bauhaus. Issues such as art and design pedagogy, the practice of photography, copyright law, and critical theory are discussed. Through a strong thematic structure, new archival research and innovative methodologies, the questions and subsequent conclusions presented here re-examine the history of the Bauhaus and its continuing legacy. Essential reading for anyone studying the Bauhaus, modern art and design.
Publisher Routledge, an imprint of Taylor & Francis, 2009
ISBN 0415778360, 9780415778367
304 pages
Siegfried Giedion: Architecture, You and Me: The Diary of a Development (1956/1958)
Filed under book | Tags: · architecture, art, city, history of architecture, painting, sculpture, urbanism
Collection of essays from 1937-1956 by an influential Prague-born and Switzerland-based historian and critic of architecture.
First published in German as vol. 18 of the Deutsche Enzyklopaedie under the title Architektur und Gemeinschaft by Rowohlt, Hamburg, 1956
Translated by Jaqueline Tyrwhitt
Publisher Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA, 1958
221 pages
Review: Harold Ehrensperger (The Saturday Review).
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