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This Is Magritte

SKU: 9781780678504
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  • Author:
    ALLMER Patricia / SPOZIO Iker
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  • Publication Date:
    12/08/2016
  • Edition:
    1
  • Pages:
    80
  • Binding:
    Hardback
  • Publisher:
    Laurence King
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This Is Magritte
This Is Magritte

This Is Magritte

SKU: 9781780678504
Regular price $0.00
Unit price
per
  • Author:
    ALLMER Patricia / SPOZIO Iker
  • ISBN:
  • Publication Date:
    12/08/2016
  • Edition:
    1
  • Pages:
    80
  • Binding:
    Hardback
  • Publisher:
    Laurence King
  • Country of Publication:

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Belgian artist Ren Magritte's biography is a key element of his art. His life is infused with bizarre moments: a surreal journey oscillating between fact and fiction that he always conducted as the straight-faced bowler-hatted man. The events of Magritte's childhood played an important part in creating the surrealist, but it was his popular culture borrowings from crime fiction, advertising and postcards that has made his work instantly recognisable. The often unreliable nature of Magritte's accounts of his own life have transformed his public image into a kind of fictional character rather than a 'real person'. He would shape his own life story to be its own surreal work of art.

Featured in the May 2016Creative Enterprises Newsletter.
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  • Belgian artist Ren Magritte's biography is a key element of his art. His life is infused with bizarre moments: a surreal journey oscillating between fact and fiction that he always conducted as the straight-faced bowler-hatted man. The events of Magritte's childhood played an important part in creating the surrealist, but it was his popular culture borrowings from crime fiction, advertising and postcards that has made his work instantly recognisable. The often unreliable nature of Magritte's accounts of his own life have transformed his public image into a kind of fictional character rather than a 'real person'. He would shape his own life story to be its own surreal work of art.

    Featured in the May 2016Creative Enterprises Newsletter.
    To receive this newsletter regularly please email us with your name and contact details.

Belgian artist Ren Magritte's biography is a key element of his art. His life is infused with bizarre moments: a surreal journey oscillating between fact and fiction that he always conducted as the straight-faced bowler-hatted man. The events of Magritte's childhood played an important part in creating the surrealist, but it was his popular culture borrowings from crime fiction, advertising and postcards that has made his work instantly recognisable. The often unreliable nature of Magritte's accounts of his own life have transformed his public image into a kind of fictional character rather than a 'real person'. He would shape his own life story to be its own surreal work of art.

Featured in the May 2016Creative Enterprises Newsletter.
To receive this newsletter regularly please email us with your name and contact details.