Rene Magritte illustrated the fallibility of representation through his piece “The Treachery of Images”, 1929. This is not a pipe. It is a picture of a pipe.

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Farnam Street (Shane Parrish)

Andrea F Hill
1 min readJan 9, 2017

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Magritte is my favorite artist, to a large extent because of this painting.

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