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Magritte
Copertina rigida, 8.3 x 10.2 in., 1.25 lb, 96 pagine20Disponibilità: DisponibileScopri il surrealista belga sempre a caccia di magia e mistero. Questa introduzione a Magritte presenta le opere chiave del suo vasto repertorio di umorismo visivo, paradosso e sorpresa che ci fa guardare e riguardare non solo il quadro, ma anche la percezione di noi stessi e del mondo.

Magritte
20This Is Not a Book
Everyday enigma from Belgium's leading Surrealist
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 a wardrobe, rocks that float in the sky, clouds that drift through an open door. The result is a direct yet disorientating realm, often witty, often unsettling, and always prompting us to look beyond the visible, to “what is hidden by what we see.”
This introductory book explores Magritte's vast repertoire of visual humor, paradox, and surprise which to this day makes us look and look again, not only at the painting, but at our sense of self and the world.
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 a wardrobe, rocks that float in the sky, clouds that drift through an open door. The result is a direct yet disorientating realm, often witty, often unsettling, and always prompting us to look beyond the visible, to “what is hidden by what we see.”
This introductory book explores Magritte's vast repertoire of visual humor, paradox, and surprise which to this day makes us look and look again, not only at the painting, but at our sense of self and the world.
L'autore
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.
Magritte
Copertina rigida, 21 x 26 cm, 0.56 kg, 96 pagineISBN 978-3-8365-0335-8
Edizione: SpagnoloISBN 978-3-8365-0356-3
Edizione: FranceseISBN 978-3-8365-0357-0
Edizione: IngleseScarica qui le immagini del prodotto
Nata nel 1985, la serie Basic Art è diventata la collezione di libri d’arte più venduta al mondo. Ogni libro della serie Basic Art di TASCHEN contiene:
una cronologia dettagliata riassuntiva della vita e delle opere dell’artista, inserito nel contesto storico e culturale in cui è vissuto
una biografia concisa
circa 100 illustrazioni con didascalie esplicative
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5 novembre 2021
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