Magritte
Subtitle: attempting the impossible
By: Siegfried Gohr
Contributors: Magritte, René, 1898-1967
Edition: 1st English hardcover ed.
Publisher: D.A.P./Distributed Art Publishers
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 323
ISBN-13: 9781933045931
Other titles: Attempting the impossible
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 318-319) and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Approaching René Magritte; title: Background, career, and artistic beginnings; title: Woman with a rose instead of a heart, or a new beginning; title: The people around Margritte; title: Magritte's path to the image: graphic design, drawing, writing, inventing, combining; title: Graphic design; title: Illustrations; title: Painting-like drawings; title: Written drawings; title: Collages, or the path to poetic surreality; title: Gouaches; title: The lost jockey, or pictorial space and stage space; title: The birth of the idol, or frozen space; title: The man in the bowler hat, or the Wanderer in the interior of thought; title: The treachery of images, or Writing as image - Image as language; title: The subjugated reader and the Aesthetic of shock; title: The hidden woman, or Magritte and the female image in surrealism; title: The red model, or Method; title: Not to be reproduced, or Reflections on method; title: The Human Condition, or the Picture within the picture; title: Treatise on light, or Alternative images to war; title: Pictorial content, or the 'Période vache'; title: Echoes of the past, New friends, Altered points of view; title: The Dominion of light, or Chains of motifs as chains of thought; title: Perspective: Manet's balcony, or Art about art; title: The Castle in the Pyrenees, or the Economy of visual invention; title: Memory of a journey, or Return of the Stone Age; title: Hegel's Holiday, or from Sketch to painting; title: The Nightingale, or the Risk of Romanticism; title: The Son of Man, or Variations on disappearance; title: The Problem of the late work?; title: The Future of Statues, or the Late Work II.