When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site, we earn an affiliate commission. By Deborah Solomon MAGRITTE A Life By Alex Danchev with Sarah Whitfield Even people who do not ...
René Magritte, “Forethought” (1943), oil on canvas, Koons Collection (© Charly Herscovici, Brussels / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York, all images courtesy San Francisco Museum of Modern Art) In ...
It’s one of Modern art’s most famous images: a pipe, above the words “Ceci n’est pas une pipe,” or “This is not a pipe,” and it’s called The Treachery of Images (1929). But what you may not know is ...
(Reuters) - A Paris exhibition of Belgian artist Rene Magritte's works hopes to explore the surrealist painter's interest in philosophy and how he translated it into his art. "Rene Magritte, The ...
The Surrealists talked a good picture, and René Magritte was more a visual punster than a virtuoso painter. His art, Alex Danchev writes in this thoroughly and gruesomely entertaining biography, is “a ...
Like the indelible dreams that the movement’s artists displayed on canvas, surrealism refuses to die. Launched nearly a century ago, with its techniques long absorbed by mainstream media and ...
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