Bibliograph

Magritte, a life, Alex Danchev, with Sarah Whitfield

Type

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Magritte, a life, Alex Danchev, with Sarah Whitfield

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 367-417) and index

resource.biographical

individual biography

Illustrations

illustrationsplates

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Magritte

Nature of contents

bibliography

Responsibility statement

Alex Danchev, with Sarah Whitfield

Sub title

a life

Summary

In this stimulating biogaphy 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. 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

Target audience

adult

Classification