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The Treachery of Images (French: La Trahison des Images) is a 1929 painting by Belgian surrealist painter René Magritte. It is also known as This Is Not a Pipe[2] and The Wind and the Song.[3] Magritte painted it when he was 30 years old. It is on display at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.[1]

The Treachery of Images
Artist	René Magritte
Year	1929
Medium	Oil on canvas
Movement	Surrealism
Dimensions	60.33 cm × 81.12 cm (23.75 in × 31.94 in)
Location	Los Angeles County Museum of Art[1]

The painting shows an image of 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!

— René Magritte[4]

The theme of pipes with the text "Ceci n'est pas une pipe" is extended in Les Mots et Les Images,[5] La Clé des Songes,[6] Ceci n'est pas une pipe (L'air et la chanson),[7] The Tune and Also the Words,[8] Ceci n’est pas une pomme,[9] and Les Deux Mystères.[10]

The painting is sometimes given as an example of meta message conveyed by paralanguage,[11] like Alfred Korzybski's "The word is not the thing" and "The map is not the territory", as well as Denis Diderot's This is not a story.

On December 15, 1929, Paul Éluard and André Breton published an essay about poetry in La Révolution surréaliste (The Surrealist Revolution) as a reaction to the publication by poet Paul Valéry "Notes sur la poésie" in Les Nouvelles littéraires of September 28, 1929. When Valéry wrote "Poetry is a survival", Breton and Éluard made fun of it and wrote "Poetry is a pipe", as a reference to Magritte's painting.[12][13]

In the same edition of La Révolution surréaliste, Magritte published "Les mots et les images" (his founding text which illustrated where words play with images), his answer to the survey on love, and Je ne vois pas la [femme] cachée dans la forêt, a painting tableau surrounded by photos of sixteen surrealists with their eyes closed, including Magritte himself.

See also

• Direct and indirect realism – Debate regarding correspondence between experiences of the world and its reality
• Self-reference – Sentence, idea or formula that refers to itself
• Simulacra and Simulation – 1981 book by Jean Baudrillard
• Subtext – Aspect of a creative work not explicitly announced
• Theory of forms – Philosophical theory attributed to Plato

References

Further reading

• Allmer, Patricia. René Magritte: Beyond Painting, Manchester University Press, 2009. ISBN 0719079284.
• Harkness, James, ed. Michel Foucault: This Is Not a Pipe, University of California Press, 2008. ISBN 0520236947.

External links

External video
Magritte's The Treachery of Images (Ceci n’est pas une pipe), Smarthistory
René Magritte considers language and perception, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art[dead link]

• G.S. Evans (2005). "This could be a pipe: Foucault, irrealism and Ceci n'est pas une pipe". irreal (re)views.

На других языках

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[de] La trahison des images

La trahison des images (wörtlich: „Der Verrat der Bilder“) ist eines der bekanntesten Bilder von René Magritte. Es entstand 1929, ist ein 60,33 × 81,12 cm großes Ölbild und befindet sich heute im Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Abgebildet ist eine Pfeife, darunter ist der Schriftzug „Ceci n’est pas une pipe.“ ( anhören?/i, französisch für „Dies ist keine Pfeife.“) zu lesen.

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- [en] The Treachery of Images

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[es] La traición de las imágenes

La traición de las imágenes (en francés: La trahison des images; 1928–1929), es una serie de cuadros del pintor surrealista belga René Magritte.

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[fr] La Trahison des images

La Trahison des images (1928–1929, peinture à l'huile sur toile de 60,3 × 81,12 cm ; musée d'Art du comté de Los Angeles ou aussi à voir au Musée royal d'Art moderne à Bruxelles, est un des tableaux les plus célèbres de René Magritte. Il représente une pipe, accompagnée de la légende suivante : «  Ceci n’est pas une pipe. ». L'intention la plus évidente de Magritte est de montrer que, même peinte de la manière la plus réaliste qui soit, une pipe représentée dans un tableau n’est pas une pipe. Elle ne reste qu’une image de pipe qu'on ne peut ni bourrer, ni fumer, comme on le ferait avec une vraie pipe.

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[it] La Trahison des images

La Trahison des images (.mw-parser-output .audiolink a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8a/Loudspeaker.svg/11px-Loudspeaker.svg.png")center left no-repeat!important;padding-left:16px!important;padding-right:0!important}ascolta[?·info], in italiano: Il tradimento delle immagini) è un dipinto a olio su tela (63,5×93,98 cm) del pittore surrealista belga René Magritte, realizzato nel 1929 e conservato nel Los Angeles County Museum of Art.[1] L'opera, contestando la raffigurazione della pipa (non si tratta di fatto di una pipa, bensì di una sua immagine), mira a mettere in risalto la differenza di tangibilità e consistenza che il mondo della realtà ha con quello dei segni, invitando nello stesso tempo alla riflessione sulla complessità del linguaggio.

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[ru] Вероломство образов

«Вероломство образов» (фр. La trahison des images, 1928—1929) — картина художника-сюрреалиста Рене Магритта.

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