You might well ask just what a pipe has to do with Media Studies? The pipe you see above is, in fact, a very famous and extremely valuable pipe. It's from a series of paintings by the French impressionist painter, Rene Magritte. He called his series of paintings, 'The Treachery of Images' and, in English, his caption reads, 'This is not a pipe'. And yet it certainly looks like a pipe... so what point Magritte was trying to make? Clicking the "next" button below will start to reveal all!

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