Magritte, Ideas and Images
Author: René Magritte
Publisher: ABRAMS
Published: 1977
Total Pages: 290
ISBN-13:
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René Magritte and the Art of Thinking
Author: Lisa Lipinski
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2019-04-04
Total Pages: 321
ISBN-13: 1351626434
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFor René Magritte, painting was a form of thinking. Through paintings of ordinary objects rendered with illusionism, Magritte probed the limits of our perception—what we see and cannot see, the nature of representation—as a philosophical system for presenting ideas, and explored perspective as a method of visual argumentation. This book makes the claim that Magritte’s painting is about vision and the act of viewing, of perception itself, and the process of how we see and experience things in the world, including paintings as things.
Magritte and Contemporary Art
Author: René Magritte
Publisher: Ludion
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 264
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEssays by Michel Draguet, Dickram Tashjian, Sara Cochran, Theresa Papanikolas, Thierry de Duve and Stephanie Barron. Introduction by Stephanie Barron.
Magritte's Marvelous Hat
Author: D.B. Johnson
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2012-04-17
Total Pages: 43
ISBN-13: 0547822448
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Everything we see hides another thing, we always want to see what is hidden by what we see." —Rene Magritte D.B. Johnson writes and illustrates the surreal story of famous surrealist painter Rene Magritte and his very mysterious (and mischievous!) hat. While the art reflects some of Magritte's own work, the text sets readers on a fun and accessible path to learning about the simpler concepts behind Mr. Magritte's work. This delightful picture book captures the playfulness and the wonderment of surrealist art.
Magritte, the True Art of Painting
Author: René Magritte
Publisher: Abradale Press
Published: 1985
Total Pages: 152
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Author: Alex Danchev
Publisher: Pantheon
Published: 2021-11-30
Total Pages: 513
ISBN-13: 0307908194
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe first major biography of the pathbreaking, perpetually influential surrealist artist and iconoclast whose inspiration can be seen in everyone from Jasper Johns to Beyoncé—by the celebrated biographer of Cézanne and Braque In this thought-provoking life of René Magritte (1898-1967), Alex Danchev makes a compelling case for Magritte as the single most significant purveyor of images to the modern world. Magritte’s surreal sensibility, deadpan melodrama, and fine-tuned outrageousness have become an inescapable part of our visual landscape, through such legendary works as The Treachery of Images (Ceci n’est pas une pipe) and his celebrated iterations of Man in a Bowler Hat. Danchev explores the path of this highly unconventional artist from his middle-class Belgian beginnings to the years during which he led a small, brilliant band of surrealists (and famously clashed with André Breton) to his first major retrospective, which traveled to the United States in 1965 and gave rise to his international reputation. Using 50 color images and more than 160 black-and-white illustrations, Danchev delves deeply into Magritte’s artistic development and the profound questions he raised in his work about the very nature of authenticity. This is a vital biography for our time that plumbs the mystery of an iconoclast whose influence can be seen in everyone from Jasper Johns to Beyoncé.
Magritte/Torczyner
Author: René Magritte
Publisher: ABRAMS
Published: 1994
Total Pages: 164
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRene Magritte (1898-1967) did not keep copies of his letters, nor did he generally save those he received. But Harry Torczyner, Magritte's confidant, friend, and attorney, cherished the letters he received from the great Belgian Surrealist artist between 1957 and 1967, and kept them all - along with duplicates of his own responses. Here, selections from this lively correspondence are reproduced and set in context by Torczyner's notes. In his letters, Magritte dealt candidly with the daily concerns of his art. He revealed the workings of his own creative process in words and, frequently, in drawings. Although they belonged to different worlds, Magritte the painter and Torczyner the lawyer shared similar mental inclinations and a vivid curiosity. They were both hostile to obligatory sentiments; boredom was deemed to be the supreme menace, and they remained mutually critical in their correspondence and in their encounters - while remaining friends. The Magritte-Torczyner connection had its special tone, which this book faithfully reflects. Illustrated with reproductions of paintings mentioned in the letters, as well as with personal photographs of both men, this intriguing book offers fresh insights into the last ten years of Magritte's life and work.
Magritte
Author: René Magritte
Publisher: Phaidon Press
Published: 1984
Total Pages: 136
ISBN-13:
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Author: Vincent Zabus
Publisher: SelfMadeHero
Published: 2017-11-07
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781910593370
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAfter donning a bowler hat that once belonged to Renâe Magritte, a man unwittingly enters the artist's off-kilter world. He must uncover the secrets of Magritte's life and work or be doomed to wear the hat forever.
Magritte
Author: Didier Ottinger
Publisher: Prestel
Published: 2017
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9783791355986
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis major new book on René Magritte offers fresh interpretations of the artist's use of symbols and imagery to articulate his particular brand of surrealism. In this beautiful monograph, a collection of revelatory essays focuses on five common images in René Magritte's work--fire, shadows, curtains, words, and the fragmented body. Featuring vibrant reproductions of more than 100 works, this book helps readers understand how the artist employed these images in ways both deceptive and realistic. The book explores how he distorted accepted interpretations of classic symbols; why he so often used words as elements of his paintings; and how he applied aspects of the theater in his works. As Magritte's paintings have become subsumed by the very commercialism they sought to ridicule, this volume takes a fresh look at an artist whose familiarity masks an incredible gift for deception and rapier-like intellect.
