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Magritte : the treachery of images

Title
Magritte : the treachery of images / edited by Didier Ottinger.
Author
Magritte, René, 1898-1967
Publication
  • Munich ; London ; New York : Prestel Verlag, [2017]
  • ©2017

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Additional Authors
  • Ottinger, Didier
  • Centre Georges Pompidou, host institution.
  • Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, host institution.
Description
201 pages : color illustrations; 29 cm
Summary
"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"--
Uniform Title
Magritte: la trahison des images. English
Alternative Title
Magritte: la trahison des images.
Subjects
Genre/Form
  • Catalogs.
  • Exhibition catalogs.
Note
  • This catalogue has been published to coincide with the exhibition "Magritte. La trahison des images/The Treachery of Images", Centre Pompidou, Musée national d'art moderne, Paris, 21 September 2016 to 23 January 2017, Schirn Kunsthalle in Frankfurt am Main, 10 February to 5 June 2017--Verso title page.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references.
Contents
Preface / Philipp Demandt -- Ut pictura philosophia : portrait of Magritte as a philosopher / Didier Ottinger -- La Ligne de vie I (1938 lecture) / René Magritte -- Words, shadows, flames, curtains, fragments : Magritte and the founding myths of painting / Didier Ottinger -- From arbitrary signs to elective affinities : painting against the imaginary bounds of the imagination / Klaus Speidel -- Seeing is believing : René Magritte and the invention of art / Jan Blanc -- The painter-king / Barbara Cassin -- Magritte and his curtains / Victor I. Stoichita -- Beauty is a formal problem / Jacqueline Lichtenstein -- From the image-screen to the art of the problem / Michel Draguet.
Call Number
JQF 17-650
ISBN
  • 3791355988
  • 9783791355986
LCCN
9783791355986
OCLC
959037459
Author
Magritte, René, 1898-1967, artist.
Title
Magritte : the treachery of images / edited by Didier Ottinger.
Publisher
Munich ; London ; New York : Prestel Verlag, [2017]
Copyright Date
©2017
Type of Content
text
still image
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references.
Added Author
Ottinger, Didier, editor.
Centre Georges Pompidou, host institution.
Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, host institution.
Other Standard Identifier
9783791355986
Research Call Number
JQF 17-650
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