The Treachery of Images
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| Artist | René Magritte |
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| Year | 1928–29 |
| Type | Oil on canvas |
| Dimensions | 63.5 cm × 93.98 cm (25 in × 37 in) |
| Location | Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California[1] |
The Treachery of Images (French: La trahison des images, 1928–29, sometimes translated as The Treason of Images) is a painting by the Belgian René Magritte, painted when Magritte was 30 years old. The picture shows a pipe. Below it, Magritte painted, "Ceci n'est pas une pipe.", French for "This is not a pipe."
The famous pipe. How people reproached me for it! And yet, could you stuff my pipe? No, it's just a representation, is it not? So if I had written on my picture "This is a pipe", I'd have been lying![2]
His statement is taken to mean that the painting itself is not a pipe. The painting is merely an image of a pipe. Hence, the description, "this is not a pipe." The theme of pipes with the text "Ceci n'est pas une pipe" is extended in his 1966 painting, Les Deux Mystères.[3] Currently it is shown at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.
Compare with Korzybski's "The word is not the thing" and "The map is not the territory″.
See also[edit]
 Magritte's The Treachery of Images (Ceci n’est pas une pipe), Smarthistory[4] |
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| René Magritte considers language and perception, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art[5] |
External videoReferences[edit]
- ^ La Trahison des images (Ceci n'est pas une pipe), 1929, Painting, Oil on canvas. Purchased with funds provided by the Mr. and Mrs. William Preston Harrison Collection (78.7). On public view: Ahmanson Building 2nd Floor.
- ^ Torczyner, Harry. Magritte: Ideas and Images. p. 71.
- ^ "Olga's Gallery". Retrieved 3 October 2010.
- ^ "Magritte's The Treachery of Images (Ceci n’est pas une pipe)". Smarthistory at Khan Academy. Retrieved March 29, 2013.
- ^ "René Magritte considers language and perception". San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Retrieved March 16, 2013.
Further reading[edit]
- Allmer, Patricia. René Magritte: Beyond Painting, Manchester University Press, 2009. ISBN 0-7190-7928-4.
External links[edit]
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Wikiversity has learning materials about 1929/Margritte#Parody |
- This could be a pipe: Foucault, irrealism and Ceci n'est pas une pipe essay in irreal (re)views
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