This is Magritte / Patricia Allmer ; illustrations by Iker Spozio.
By: Allmer, Patricia [author.]
Contributor(s): Spozio, Iker [illustrator.]
Language: English Series: This isPublisher: London, United Kingdom : Laurence King Publishing, 2016Description: 77 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 23 cmContent type: text | still image Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 1780678509; 9781780678504Subject(s): Magritte, Rene, 1898-1967 | Magritte, Rene, 1898-1967 -- Criticism and interpretation | Painters -- Belgium -- BiographyGenre/Form: BiographyDDC classification: 759.9493 Summary: Belgian artist Rene 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 recognizable. 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.| Item type | Current location | Home library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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Belgian artist Rene 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 recognizable. 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.
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