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Magritte Rene
2012 Rene Magritte Wall Calendar (English, German, French, Italian, Spanish and Dutch Edition)
 List Price: Price: $6.99 You Save: $7.00 (50%) DescriptionIf the picture you're looking at challenges your perception of reality and leaves you thinking, am I seeing what I think I am, chances are you've discovered the work of Rene Magritte. 12 thought provoking paintings by this leading Belgian surrealist artist force the viewer to become super sensitive to what is happening in the art they are seeing as the year 2012 progresses.
Rene Magritte 1898-1967: Thoughts Rendered Visible (Basic Art)
 List Price: Price: $4.99 You Save: $5.00 (50%) DescriptionThe illustrations in this work constitute a comprehensive catalogue of the visible thought of the artist. Taking the form of the body in painting or of the relations between image and word, this book presents the poetic enigmas of the Belgian surrealist.
René Magritte (Getting to Know the World's Greatest Artists)
 List Price: Price: $3.29 You Save: $3.66 (53%) DescriptionPresents a biography of René Magritte
Magritte (World of Art)
 List Price: Price: $6.43 You Save: $12.52 (66%) DescriptionThrough shock and paradox, Rene Magritte sets out to reveal the mysterious nature of thought. His paintings, with their unexpected juxtaposition of objects, are a deliberate defiance of common sense. In this classic study, Suzi Gablik explains how Magritte was never involved in the experimental techniques and stylistic innovations of the other Surrealists, and how, as a result, his work has proved to hold more options for the future. 228 illus., 19 in color.
Magritte: Attempting the Impossible
 List Price: Price: $55.09 You Save: $29.91 (35%) DescriptionThe ongoing relevance of Belgian painter Rene Magritte may lie in the semiotic character of his work and its ability to create chasms between the world, its surfaces and the signs we use to occupy it. Magritte's paintings offer a space for the viewer to contemplate the emptiness of signs and to locate that emptiness in a world we recognize--indeed, the artist relies on the props of normalcy in order to upend, invert and collapse them into the terra incognita where life leaves off and art begins. "The mind loves the unknown," he avowed, "it loves images whose meaning is unknown, since the meaning of the mind itself is unknown." In Attempting the Impossible we have a new definitive Magritte monograph, replacing David Sylvester's volume of the early 1990s. Featuring more than 300 works, it contains much unpublished material and includes chapters covering Magritte's photography, drawings and influence on German and American contemporary art. Each chapter opens with a close reading of a key work--such as "The Treachery of Images" ("This is not a pipe") of 1928-29--and a reconstruction of its intellectual and historical contexts. Art historian Siegfried Gohr examines Magritte's marriage and friendships, the phases of his work (from his sunlit Renoir period and his "periode vache" to his bright and visually arresting postwar work, which had such an influence on the advertising industry), the Belgian roots of his wit and sensibility and his word paintings and investigations into the paradoxes of representation.
Rene Magritte: Now You See It--Now You Don't (Adventures in Art (Prestel))
 List Price: Price: $10.23 You Save: $4.72 (32%) DescriptionIn his art Magritte depicts everyday objects from a new perspective; nothing he creates turns out quite the way we expect. A stone floats weightlessly in the air, a landscape dissolves into fragments, a seagull wears a dress made of summer clouds and a locomotive steams out of a firepalce. This book introduces children to Magritte's crazy, topsy-turvy world full of riddles and secrets and to the concept of seeing everyday things differently.The books in Prestel's Adventures in Art series do a wonderful job of balancing respect for art with an understanding of what holds a young child's interest. Now You See It--Now You Don't is filled with excellent reproductions of the paintings of René Magritte, carefully printed in color, with a lot of white space around each one. Designed with confidence in a child's ability to find the paintings fascinating, the layout is calm, and the text is full of fun. "What a horrible meal!" reads the caption over the famous image of the plate of ham with a human eye staring out from the middle of the meat. Throughout the book such comments are written in the same proper, school-board script Magritte himself used to caption such pictures as "This is not a pipe" (which depicts--of course--a pipe). Of a painting of six everyday objects with wonky captions (such as an empty glass labeled "the storm,") titled The Key to Dreams, readers are asked, "What do you think this picture could be called?" The book reproduces many old, black-and-white, surrealist snapshots, and even introduces Man Ray to the reader. This is the sort of multifaceted book that should enthrall the parent as well as the preschooler, and probably everyone in between. --Peggy Moorman Magritte Rene News
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Menil Collection gets ooky with Body in FragmentsSomething similar happens to the nude woman in René Magritte's The Eternally Obvious (1930), which is presented in five separate frames.