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
ISBN-13: 9781933045931
Subjects: Magritte, René, -- 1898-1967 -- Criticism and interpretation; Surrealism -- Belgium
Other titles: Attempting the impossible
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: 6
label: Preface; title: 9
label: Approaching Rene Magritte; title: 15
label: Background, Career, and Artistic Beginnings; title: 25
label: Woman with a Rose instead of a Heart, or a New Beginning; title: 33
label: The People around Magritte; title: 45
label: Magritte's Paths to the Image: Graphic Design, Drawing, Writing, Inventing, Combining; title: 26
label: Graphic Design; title: 55
label: Illustrations; title: 56
label: Painting-like Drawings; title: 65
label: Written Drawings; title: 68
label: Collages, or the Path to Poetic Surreality; title: 75
label: Gouaches; title: 81
label: The Lost Jockey, or Pictuial Space and Stage Space; title: 91
label: The Birth of the Idol, or Frozen Space; title: 97
label: The Man in the Bowler Hat, or the Wanderer in the Interior of Thought; title: 107
label: The Treachery of Images, or Writing as Image - Images as Language; title: 125
label: The Subjugated reader and the Aesthetic of Shock; title: 137
label: The Hidden Woman, or Magritte and the Female Image in Surrealism; title: 151
label: The Red Model, or Method; title: 161
label: Not to be Reproduced, or Reflections on Method; title: 171
label: The Human Condition, or the Picture within the Picture; title: 181
label: Treatise on Light, Alternative Images to War; title: 199
label: Pictorial Content, or the 'Periode Vache'; title: 209
label: Echoes of the Past, New Friends, Altered Points of View; title: 223
label: The Dominion of Light, or Chains of Motifs as Chains of Thought; title: 237
label: Perspective: Manet's Balcony, or Art about Art; title: 241
label: The Castle in the Pyrenees, or the Economy of Visual Invention; title: 253
label: Memory of a Journey, or return of the Stone Age; title: 263
label: Hegel's Holiday, or from Sketch to Painting; title: 267
label: The Nightingale, or the Risk of Romanticism; title: 271
label: The Son of Man, or Variations on Disappearance; title: 293
label: The Problem of the Late Work?; title: 305
label: The Future of Statues, or the Late Work II; title: 315
label: Notes; title: 318
label: Bibliography; title: 320
label: Index of Wroks by Rene Magritte; title: 322
label: Index of Proper Names