This is Not a Pipe

A realistic painting of a pipe is underscored by the sentence, This Is Not a Pipe. French philosopher Michel Foucault's classic essay on the complex relationship between language and image in René Magritte's painting has long been standard reading for students trying to understand the postmodern world. The informative introduction to this edition and the black-and-white reproductions of Magritte's work are good accompaniments to Foucault's text.