Aesthetics

This is NOT the Prophet Muhammad

What does it mean to write “This is not Muhammad” across a bluntly literal and blasphemous picture of the founder of Islam, the Prophet Muhammad? This video on aesthetics follows a similar trajectory to the essay written by Michel Foucault “This is not a Pipe” about a painting by painter Rene Magritte

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Foucault, Michel. This Is Not a Pipe. Translated by James A. Harkness, University of California Press, 2008. Buy here!

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