The Essential Rene Magritte

by Todd Alden

Book Overview

Focusing on Rene Magritte, this is one of an illustrated series which provides accounts of the lives of individual artists, professional and personal anecdotes, and concise definitions of cultural and... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0836219368
• ISBN13: 9780836219364
• Release Date: January 1999
• Publisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing
• Length: 112 Pages
• Weight: 0.58 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 6.0"

Customer Reviews

OPTICAL ILLUSIONIST

A leader of the Surrealist movement, Belgian artist Magritte was a highly unique painter who combined the ordinary, the bizarre, and the erotic to startling effect. Using a repertoire of images which he repeated again and again, he remained true to his form throughout his productive life. With a gift for optical illusion, Magritte has become an icon of pop culture - his influence evident in everything from corporate logos to advertising design. He is the artist who would have a locomotive steaming out of a fireplace, men in bowler hats floating in midair, and an enormous castle topped rock suspended above the ocean. Suspend all preconceived notions to enjoy this non-tradiitonalist. And, when you do, it's fun!