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An edition of Magritte: attempting the impossible
(2009)
Magritte
attempting the impossible
1st English hardcover ed.
by Siegfried Gohr
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A mostly chronological summary of the main themes in Magritte's work.
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Exhibitions, Surrealism, Modern Painting, Criticism and interpretation, Influence, Catalogs, Belgian PaintingPeople
René Magritte (1898-1967)Places
BelgiumTimes
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Magritte: attempting the impossible
2009, D.A.P./Distributed Art Publishers
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- 1st English hardcover ed.
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Table of Contents
Preface.
6
Approaching Rene Magritte.
9
Background, Career, and Artistic Beginnings.
15
Woman with a Rose instead of a Heart, or a New Beginning.
25
The People around Magritte.
33
Magritte's Paths to the Image: Graphic Design, Drawing, Writing, Inventing, Combining.
45
Graphic Design.
26
Illustrations.
55
Painting-like Drawings.
56
Written Drawings.
65
Collages, or the Path to Poetic Surreality.
68
Gouaches.
75
The Lost Jockey, or Pictuial Space and Stage Space.
81
The Birth of the Idol, or Frozen Space.
91
The Man in the Bowler Hat, or the Wanderer in the Interior of Thought.
97
The Treachery of Images, or Writing as Image - Images as Language.
107
The Subjugated reader and the Aesthetic of Shock.
125
The Hidden Woman, or Magritte and the Female Image in Surrealism.
137
The Red Model, or Method.
151
Not to be Reproduced, or Reflections on Method.
161
The Human Condition, or the Picture within the Picture.
171
Treatise on Light, Alternative Images to War.
181
Pictorial Content, or the 'Periode Vache'.
199
Echoes of the Past, New Friends, Altered Points of View.
209
The Dominion of Light, or Chains of Motifs as Chains of Thought.
223
Perspective: Manet's Balcony, or Art about Art.
237
The Castle in the Pyrenees, or the Economy of Visual Invention.
241
Memory of a Journey, or return of the Stone Age.
253
Hegel's Holiday, or from Sketch to Painting.
263
The Nightingale, or the Risk of Romanticism.
267
The Son of Man, or Variations on Disappearance.
271
The Problem of the Late Work?.
293
The Future of Statues, or the Late Work II.
305
Notes.
315
Bibliography.
318
Index of Wroks by Rene Magritte.
320
Index of Proper Names.
322
Edition Notes
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Includes bibliographical references.
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