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painting - The Treachery of Images

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The picture shows a pipe. McCloud points out that, not only is the version that appears in his book not painting The Treachery of Images a pipe, it is actually several printed copies of a drawing of a painting of a pipe. Douglas Hofstadter also discusses painting this painting and other images like it in Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid, a work on cognition and consciousness. .

How people reproached me for it! And yet, could you stuff my pipe? No, it s just painting Dong Ho painting a representation, is it not? So if I had written on my picture This is a pipe, I d have been lying! Magritte extends this work s style and effect in his 1930 painting, The Key to Dreams. French literary critic and philosopher Michel Foucault discusses the painting and its paradox in his 1973 book, This Is Not a Pipe (English edition, 1991). In Scott McCloud s Understanding Comics, the painting is used as an introduction to the second chapter. Below it, Magritte painted, Ceci n est pas une pipe ( pronunciation (help·info)), French for This is not a pipe. The painting is not a pipe, but rather an image of a pipe, which was Magritte s point: The famous pipe.

The Treachery of Images (La trahison des images, 1928–29) is a painting by the Belgian René Magritte.