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 and index

resource.biographical

individual biography

Illustrations

platesillustrations

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

Rene Magritte's surreal sensibility, deadpan melodrama, and fine-tuned outrageousness have all become inescapably part of our times. But these groundbreaking subversions all came from a middle-class Belgian gent, who kept a modest house in a Brussels suburb and whose first one-man show sold absolutely nothing. Through a deep examination of Magritte's friendships and his artistic development, Alex Danchev explores the path of an highly unconventional artist who posed profound questions about the relationship between image and reality, challenged the very nature of authenticity and whose influence can be seen in the work of everyone from Jasper Johns to BeyoncÃ©

Table Of Contents

His secret jungle -- Normal madness -- Cupid's curse -- The aura of the extraordinary -- Charm and menace -- The cuckoo's egg -- Through the keyhole -- Surfeit and subversion -- The true and the false -- 1948-1967

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