René Magritte: The Revealing Image - Rilegato

Canonne, Xavier

Rilegato

ISBN 10: 9491819739 ISBN 13: 9789491819735

Casa editrice: Ludion, 2017

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A richly illustrated book that dives into René Magritte’s photo and film archive, revealing a lesser-known side of the surrealist master.

In this richly illustrated book, Xavier Canonne, director of the Museum of Photography in Charleroi, dives into René Magritte’s photo and film archive, revealing a lesser-known side of the surrealist master. Discovered in the 1970s, more than ten years after the artist’s death, this collection gives us access to a family album, an informal Magritte, from his childhood to the last years of his life. We see Magritte with his parents and brothers, as a newly married man with his wife Georgette, and with his contemporaries in the Brussels Surrealist group. Spontaneous snapshots are complemented by posed scenes, including improvised tableaux with his fellow artists, parodies of famous movies consciously arranged with Georgette, portraits of Magritte at his easel at home, and staged photographs as models for his paintings. Images where the artist and his friends hide their faces or turn away from the camera particularly resonate with his paintings and his investigation of the ‘hidden visible’. While other Surrealists such as Man Ray and Raoul Ubac made photography an essential part of their work, Magritte remained a true painter. Yet this book demonstrates that his photographs and home movies are so pervaded with his spirit that they are inseparable from his oeuvre of paintings.

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The Surrealists made abundant use of photography, and some even devoted themselves to it entirely. But Magritte never considered himself a 'photographer' - he reserved this practice for special moments and specific uses: family photos, models for paintings and advertising work, photos of paintings in progress, and scenes improvised with friends. Nevertheless, Magritte's photographs and films are closely related to his paintings and demonstrate a similar methos in their grasp on reality.

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• Editore: Ludion
• Data di pubblicazione: 2017
• ISBN 10: 9491819739
• ISBN 13: 9789491819735
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 167