Magritte
$40.85
- Hardcover
96 pages
- Release Date
10 November 2015
Summary
From men in bowler hats, floating in the sky, to a painting of a pipe above the caption “this is not a pipe”, René Magritte (1898-1967) created an echo chamber of object and image, name and thing, reality and representation.
Like other Surrealist works, Magritte’s paintings combine a precise, mimetic technique with abnormal, alienating configurations which defy the laws of scale, logic, and science: a comb the size of…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9783836503570 |
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| ISBN-10: | 3836503573 |
| Author: | Taschen, Marcel Paquet |
| Publisher: | Taschen GmbH |
| Imprint: | Taschen GmbH |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 96 |
| Release Date: | 10 November 2015 |
| Weight: | 616g |
| Dimensions: | 18mm x 217mm x 265mm |
| Series: | Basic Art |
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Taschen
Marcel Paquet (1947–2014) obtained his doctorate in 1978 from the Free University of Brussels with a thesis entitled La différence des penseés de Kant et de Hegel dans la question de l’essence de l’art. He published a number of books on such subjects as Paul Delvaux, Fernando Botero, and Hans Bellmer.
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