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Magritte : a life
\"The first major biography for our time of René Magritte, from the celebrated biographer of Braque and Cézanne. In this stimulating life of René Magritte (1898-1967), Alex Danchev makes a case for the artist as the single most significant purveyor of images to the modern world. His surreal sensibility, his deadpan melodrama, and his fine-tuned outrageousness have all become inescapably part of our times through legendary works such as The Treachery of Images (we know it as Ceci n'est pas une pipe), and through his iterations of the man in a bowler hat, raining down in multiples from the sky, or with an apple where his face should be. These pathbreaking subversions all came from a middle-class Belgian gent, who kept a modest house in a Brussels suburb; who led a small, brilliant band of Belgian surrealists, and famously clashed with André Breton; whose first one-man show, in the style he famously dubbed \"Vache\" (\"Cow\"), sold absolutely nothing. In 1965 a major retrospective traveling throughout the United States gave birth to his international reputation. Using thirty-two pages of color inserts and black-and-white illustrations throughout the text, Danchev explores the path of this highly unconventional artist who posed profound questions about the relationship between image and reality and the very nature of authenticity. Danchev delves into a deep examination of Magritte's artistic development, surveys his intimate friendships, and plumbs the mystery of an iconoclast whose influence can be seen in everyone from Jasper Johns to Beyoncé\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Cinemagritte
Cinemagritte: René Magritte within the Frame of Film History, Theory, and Practice investigates the dynamic relationship between the Surrealist modernist artist René Magritte (1898–1967) and the cinema—a topic largely ignored in the annals of film and art criticism. Magritte once said that he used cinema as \"a trampoline for the imagination, \" but here author Lucy Fischer reverses that process by using Magritte's work as a stimulus for an imaginative examination of film.While Fischer considers direct influences of film on Magritte and Magritte on film, she concentrates primarily on \"resonances\" of Magritte's work in international cinema—both fiction and documentary, mainstream and experimental. These resonances exist for several reasons. First, Magritte was a lover of cinema and created works as homages to the medium, such as Blue Cinema (1925), which immortalized his childhood movie theater. Second, Magritte's style, though dependent on bizarre juxtapositions, was characterized by surface realism—which ties it to the nature of the photographic and cinematic image. Third, Magritte shares with film a focus on certain significant concepts: the frame, voyeurism, illusionism, the relation between word and image, the face, montage, variable scale, and flexible point of view. Additionally, the volume explores art documentaries concerning Magritte as well as the artist's whimsical amateur \"home movies, \" made with his wife, Georgette, friends, and Belgian Surrealist associates. The monograph is richly illustrated with images of Magritte's oeuvre as well as film stills from such diverse works as The Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Eyes Without a Face, American Splendor, The Blood of a Poet, Zorns Lemma, The Island of Dr. Moreau, The Draughtsman's Contract, and many more. Cinemagritte brings a novel and creative approach to the work of Magritte and both film and art criticism. Students, scholars, and fans of art history and film will enjoy this thoughtful marriage of the two.
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Cinemagritte : René Magritte within the frame of film history, theory, and practice
Examines the fascinating ties between Surrealist artist René Magritte and the cinema.
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René Magritte
Available for the first time in an English translation, this selection of René Magritte's writings gives non-Francophone readers the chance to encounter the many incarnations of the renowned Belgian painter-the artist, the man, the aspiring noirist, the fire-breathing theorist-in his own words. Through whimsical personal letters, biting apologia, appreciations of fellow artists, pugnacious interviews, farcical film scripts, prose poems, manifestos, and much more, a new Magritte emerges: part Surrealist, part literalist, part celebrity, part rascal.While this book is sure to appeal to admirers of Magritte's art and those who are curious about his personal life, there is also much to delight readers interested in the history and theory of art, philosophy and politics, as well as lovers of creativity and the inner workings of a probing, inquisitive mind unrestricted by genre, medium, or fashion.
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Magritte’s Literary Affinities: Baudelaire and Poe
Edgar Allan Poe and Charles Baudelaire, writing in the nineteenth century, and Rene Magritte, painting in the twentieth, are linked in their search for innovative forms in art and in their resistance to established norms. None of these pronouncements, no matter how exaggerated, altered the fact that Magritte and the Surrealists wanted to reveal the world's mystery while resolving the contradictions between life and death, past and present, dream and reality, the conscious and the unconscious. Among other things Stoltzfus presents the works of Edgar Allan Poe, Charles Baudelaire, and Rene Magritte.
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AUTHENTICATION OF A PAINTING BY RENE MAGRITTE
Two main aspects were studied in the paper. The first consisted in establishing the authenticity of a painting made in the manner of the painter René François Ghislain Magritte (1898-1967), by determining the nature of the pictorial materials and their state of conservation, highlighting some archaeometic characteristics. The second aspect refers to the validation of the assessment carried out in 2003 by the art historian Amelia Pavel (1915-2003), which is considered by art critics to be superficial in few authentications. The painting \"The Hope of the Son's Return\" was made by Rene Magritte, in the period between 1960-1962, as Amelia PAVEL also reveals. This corresponds archeometrically and chemometrically, by determining the age of the pictorial materials and the support, as having been executed in 1962. The aesthetico-artistic expertise combined with through multispectral techniques (IR, UV, and VIS Reflectography) and microscopic (Optical Microscopy, Stereomicroscopy, SEM-EDX), highlight the certain attributes of authenticity, the painting being by René Magritte. As for the previous expert's inscription on the back of the painting, graphoscopic and archaeometric analysis revealed that it belongs to Amelia Pavel.
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Elective Affinities—René Magritte as the Guest of His Patron Edward James in London
This essay takes as its subject the letters and postcards written by Belgian painter René Magritte (1898–1967) to his wife, Georgette, between 12 February and 19 March 1937, while the artist stayed at the London home of his patron Edward James. This sojourn represented a turning point in Magritte’s biography and artistic career, and the artist was introduced to a new circle of buyers. The friendship that developed between painter and host resulted in many more commissions and acquisitions that would make James’s collection of Magritte’s work the largest prior to the Second World War. The correspondence between Magritte and Georgette, conserved in the special collections of the Getty Research Institute, offers a highly personal glimpse into the relationship between the artist and his wife and provides insights into Magritte’s relationships with the Surrealist Group in England, agent and gallerist E. L. T. Mesens, and patron and collector Edward James.
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