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Rene Magritte 1898-1967  
Author: Jacques Meuris
ISBN: 3822834947
Format: Handover
Publish Date: June, 2005
 
     
     
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Rene Magritte 1898-1967

FROM THE PUBLISHER

The artist's most unforgettable images come together in an exquisite study of his life and work. This comprehensive and provocative monograph traces the influences on Magritte's art while 400 illustrations show the full range of his work. Not only the well-known paintings but also lesser-known murals, photographs, sculptures, and commercial works are represented. 400 illustrations, 110 in full-color.

FROM THE CRITICS

Publishers Weekly

Though full of subconscious upwellings and startling conjunctions of seemingly unrelated objects, Rene Magritte's paintings are not dreamscapes, according to French art critic Meuris. With every painting, the Belgian surrealist, whose work is ``governed by `thought,' '' challenges his viewer's intellect and assumptions about reality. Observes Meuris in Magrittian fashion: ``Magritte is not a painter, while yet being a great painter.'' While the paradox of the paintings of burning tubas remains largely unsolved, other images are successfully unraveled and the heavy French intellectual baggage one might expect is avoided. Meuris also looks at Magritte's little-known photographs, short films, sculptures and surreal objects in this illuminating, delightfully illustrated volume that reaffirms the artist's stature as it traces the fine line he toes between reality and illusion. (Dec.)

     



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