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Is Magritte's pipe a pipe, or not?

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Treachery is all around us, not just in images. “Pipe”—if we examine the concentric rings of its treachery starting right here right now—is an idea in my mind, a word in an answer on Quora, a group of pixels on a computer screen, some numbers that... read more

Magritte, The Treachery of Images (Ceci n’est pas une pipe) About Transcript René Magritte, The Treachery of Images (Ceci n'est pas une pipe), 1929 (LACMA) Speakers: Dr. Beth Harris, Dr. Steven Zucker. read more

The Treachery of Images' cleverly highlights the gap between language and meaning. Magritte combined the words and image in such a fashion that he forces us to question the importance of the sentence and the word."Pipe," for instance, is no more an actual pipe than a picture of a pipe can be smoked. read more

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