This Is Not a Pipe Sculpture with Houli close to best

with Houli close to best on ground in both deciders

' - Australian Women's Weekly

His mission looks doomed to fail

"--Brian Kilmeade

This Is Not a Pipe Sculpture with Houli close to bestWhat 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