Magritte : attempting the impossible / Siegfried Gohr.

Author/creator Gohr, Siegfried
Other author Magritte, René, 1898-1967.
Format Book
Edition1st English hardcover ed.
Publication InfoNew York, NY : D.A.P./Distributed Art Publishers, ©2009.
Description323 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 34 cm
Subjects

Portion of title Attempting the impossible
Contents Approaching René Magritte -- Background, career, and artistic beginnings -- Woman with a rose instead of a heart, or a new beginning -- The people around Margritte -- Magritte's path to the image: graphic design, drawing, writing, inventing, combining -- Graphic design -- Illustrations -- Painting-like drawings -- Written drawings -- Collages, or the path to poetic surreality -- Gouaches -- The lost jockey, or pictorial space and stage space -- The birth of the idol, or frozen space -- The man in the bowler hat, or the Wanderer in the interior of thought -- The treachery of images, or Writing as image - Image as language -- The subjugated reader and the Aesthetic of shock -- The hidden woman, or Magritte and the female image in surrealism -- The red model, or Method -- Not to be reproduced, or Reflections on method -- The Human Condition, or the Picture within the picture -- Treatise on light, or Alternative images to war -- Pictorial content, or the 'Période vache' -- Echoes of the past, New friends, Altered points of view -- The Dominion of light, or Chains of motifs as chains of thought -- Perspective: Manet's balcony, or Art about art -- The Castle in the Pyrenees, or the Economy of visual invention -- Memory of a journey, or Return of the Stone Age -- Hegel's Holiday, or from Sketch to painting -- The Nightingale, or the Risk of Romanticism -- The Son of Man, or Variations on disappearance -- The Problem of the late work? -- The Future of Statues, or the Late Work II.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and indexes.
LCCN 2009022403
ISBN9781933045931 (alk. paper)
ISBN1933045930 (alk. paper)