Approaching René Magritte
Background, career, and artistic beginnings
Woman with a rose instead of a heart, or a new beginning
The people around Margritte
Magritte's path to the image: graphic design, drawing, writing, inventing, combining
Graphic design
Illustrations
Painting-like drawings
Written drawings
Collages, or the path to poetic surreality
Gouaches
The lost jockey, or pictorial space and stage space
The birth of the idol, or frozen space
The man in the bowler hat, or the Wanderer in the interior of thought
The treachery of images, or Writing as image - Image as language
The subjugated reader and the Aesthetic of shock
The hidden woman, or Magritte and the female image in surrealism
The red model, or Method
Not to be reproduced, or Reflections on method
The Human Condition, or the Picture within the picture
Treatise on light, or Alternative images to war
Pictorial content, or the 'Période vache'
Echoes of the past, New friends, Altered points of view
The Dominion of light, or Chains of motifs as chains of thought
Perspective: Manet's balcony, or Art about art
The Castle in the Pyrenees, or the Economy of visual invention
Memory of a journey, or Return of the Stone Age
Hegel's Holiday, or from Sketch to painting
The Nightingale, or the Risk of Romanticism
The Son of Man, or Variations on disappearance
The Problem of the late work?
The Future of Statues, or the Late Work II.
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Magritte : attempting the impossible by Siegfried Gohr. ISBN 9781933045931. Published by D.A.P./Distributed Art Publishers in 2009. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.
