Magritte - Softcover

Meuris, Jacques

Softcover

ISBN 10: 3822834963 ISBN 13: 9783822834961

Publisher: Taschen America Llc, 2004

Synopsis

The works of Rene Magritte (1898 - 1967) and the ideas that underlie them are a special case both in the history of modern art and in surrealist painting. In the search for the "mystery" in which things and organisms are enveloped, Magritte created pictures which, taking everyday reality as their starting point, were to follow a different logic from that to which we are accustomed. Magritte depicts the world of reality in such unsecretive superficiality that the beholder of his pictures is forced to reflect that the mystery of it is not evoked by some sentimental transfiguration, but rather by the logic of his thoughts and associations. Magritte thus invented an inimitable pictorial language which he uses to question our usual comprehension of pictures. In this book Jacques Meuris traces Magritte's artistic development from its beginnings until the end of his life, and in doing so underlines the originality of this great Belgian Surrealist.

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Review:

"I don't believe in the unconscious, except when we are asleep." Magritte.

About the Author:

Jacques Meuris (b. 1923 in Liege) is a writer, photographer and art critic; he is the author of numerous books, catalogue articles and commentaries on modern art, literature and photography. He is Professor Emeritus of the Ecole Superieure des Arts Visuels (La Cambre, Brussels), a member of the Libre Academie de Beigique and a director of the Association Internationale des Critiques d'Art (AICA).

About this edition

• Publisher: Taschen America Llc
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 3822834963
• ISBN 13: 9783822834961
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 216