Magritte: The Mystery of the Ordinary 1926-1938
Language: English
Published by The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2013
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- Softcover
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First edition. Softcover. 256 pages. Exhibition catalog for a show that ran September 28, 2013 through January 12, 2014 at The Museum of Modern Art and then traveled to Houston and Chicago for additional dates. Essays by Stephanie D'Alessandro, Michel Draguet and Glaude Goormans, Josef Heifenstein with Clare Elliott and Anne Umland. Includes numerous color and black and white illustrations. A fine copy in French style wrappers.
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- Title
- Magritte: The Mystery of the Ordinary 1926-1938
- Author
- MAGRITTE, Rene, Stephanie D'Alessandro, Michel Draguet and Glaude Goormans, Josef Heifenstein with Clare Elliott and Anne Umland
- Publisher
- The Museum of Modern Art, New York
- Publication year
- 2013
- Binding
- Soft cover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0870708988
- ISBN 13
- 9780870708985
- Edition
- First Edition.
- Item weight
- 4.313 pounds
- Seller catalogs
- Art and Exhibition Catalogues
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" Magritte: The Mystery of the Ordinary, 1926-1938" focuses on the years when Belgian artists produced some of his most important Surrealist paintings. Highlights include The Menaced Assassin (1927), a macabre scene of lust and murder that blurs dream states and reality.--The Editors "Art in America "
- Magritte: The Mystery of the Ordinary, 1926-1938- focuses on the years when Belgian artists produced some of his most important Surrealist paintings. Highlights include The Menaced Assassin (1927), a macabre scene of lust and murder that blurs dream states and reality.--The Editors -Art in America -
Featuring works from more than 50 collections, this exhibition catalogue reproduces and contextualizes Rene Magritte's development as a surrealist artist from 1926, when he began his quest, until 1938, when he presented a lecture that summarized his accomplishments in this genre. The introduction explains Magritte's cubist work prior to 1926 and explores how the artistic influence of Giorgio de Chirico and Max Ernst shifted his work toward surrealism. The catalogue proper and four additional essays divide the 13-year period into segments based on the artist's physical location--from Brussels to Paris, back to Brussels, and finally to London, where he completed commissions for Edward James. Contributors focus on Magritte's development of specific techniques to make ordinary objects seem unfamiliar. These included recontextualization (placing an object into a location where it would not normally be found), metamorphosis (the visual transformation of one object into another), and deliberate mislabeling (creating a disjunction between visual objects and their textual names). While this book does not replace the five-volume catalogue raisonne, it provides a reasonably priced alternative containing both well-known and lesser-known works, including Magritte's work for periodicals ranging from Varietes and Le Centaure to La Revolution Surrealiste. Summing Up: Recommended. Lower-level undergraduates through graduate students; general audience.--E. K. Mix "CHOICE "
The name Rene Magritte (1898-1967) is widely recognized by art lovers and agnostics alike, and for good reason: He utterly transformed our expectations of what is real and what is not. When someone described something as "surreal," or recalls a dream, chances are good that the images in his or her head have been informed, consciously or not, by a Magritte, seen either in reproduction or in person. [...] From the get-go, Magritte's intent was to undermine our perceptions of reality by using the conventions of realism: first throught odd juxtapositions of figures and items within traditional illusionistic space; next, by seamlessly morphing together textures and objects; and finally, by deploying language itself to decouple imagery from its representational function - most famously in his painting of a pipe above the legend THIS IS NOT A PIPE.--Howard Halle "Time Out New York "
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