The Belgian painter, printmaker, sculptor and filmmaker Rene Magritte (b. 1898) was one of the leading figures in the Surrealist movement, producing some of the most iconic images of the twentieth century. He abandoned abstract painting on encountering the work of de Chirico and joined the Surrealist circle in Paris in the second half of the 1920s. Soon he was producing works in his trademark style; painted in a flat, inexpressive manner, his pictures combine apparently mundane, everyday scenes with elements of the ...
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The Belgian painter, printmaker, sculptor and filmmaker Rene Magritte (b. 1898) was one of the leading figures in the Surrealist movement, producing some of the most iconic images of the twentieth century. He abandoned abstract painting on encountering the work of de Chirico and joined the Surrealist circle in Paris in the second half of the 1920s. Soon he was producing works in his trademark style; painted in a flat, inexpressive manner, his pictures combine apparently mundane, everyday scenes with elements of the fantastic or erotic, creating a disturbing, dream-like atmosphere that is all his own. In the early 1930s he returned to Brussels, where he continued to live and work for the rest of his career, remaining faithful to Surrealism and developing a vocabulary of symbols - floating rocks, bowler-hatted, umbrella-carrying men, incongruous nudes, concealed or shrouded faces - that is among the most recognisable in modern painting. In Brussels Magritte lived a well-ordered, regular life, his conventional clothes and apparently bourgeois habits in tune with the surrealist aim of subverting society from within. Published on the occasion of a major retrospective exhibition, this book is by no means a typical exhibition catalogue: instead, the book is designed in the format of an A to Z, fully illustrated in colour, each entry written by one of a range of international scholars. The entries under the letter 'A' alone - Absence, Abstraction, Appropriation, Anonymity, Artifice, Automatism and Automatic Writing - show how such an approach can serve to reveal and explore the themes and motivations in this most enigmatic artist's work.
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Exhibition catalogue. First edition, 2011. 208 pages. Illustrated mainly in colour, some black and white. Paperback. Some nick to the head edge of a dozen or so pages, slightly cocked. Very good. We are specialists in Catalogues: Exhibitions, Auctions, Collections, etc., with a picture of the cover available on request. All items are as described and dispatched within 36 hours in a secure package. We are professional booksellers with over 35 years experience, you may order with confidence.
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