Magritte And Photography

by Roegiers, Patrick

• ISBN13: 9780853319337
• ISBN10: 0853319332
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2006-04-30
• Publisher: Independent Pub Group

Summary

"Rene Magritte, the great Surrealist painter, begin experimenting with photography at an early age. While still a young student at the Academy of Fine Arts in Brussels, he posed in a three piece suit, standing before his easel with brush and palette in hand - already projecting the carefully constructed image of the artist he wanted to become. His finely calibrated, bourgeois persona eventually entered into his own paintings, becoming a uniform image of the dark, dark-suited man with umbrella and hat. But it was in photographs that Magritte first incarnated the figure of himself as a great painter, instantly recognizable and before long, universally celebrated." "Magritte and Photography is an illuminating and enjoyable study of the ways in which the photographic medium played a constant role in Magritte's social and artistic life. Beginning with turn-of-the-century pictures of his parents and siblings, running through surrealist scenarios involving friends Louis Scutenaire and Paul Nouge, and ending with haunting portraits taken by Duane Michals, this volume explores both Magritte's life and his construction of it - though the camera lens."--BOOK JACKET.

Table of Contents

Prologue: Watch the (Real) Birdie!

Educating the Painter (1898-1903): Family Photos: The Tender Secrets of Childhood

My, How You've Changed, RenT!

Georgette and RenT: A Love Story in Pictures

Oh, My Friends, Let us Laugh Hearty and Drink Deep!

The Double Figure, or the Challenge to Resemblance

The Conquest of Paris, or the Oustskirts of Success

Self-Portrait of Creation: Attempting the Impossible

Creating the Photographer (1930-1954): The Return to Brussels, Georgette's Charm

Photography is the Art of Disobedience: Let's Use if for All it's Worth

Vacations from Life, Vacancies of Sight

The Genius of Discoveries, the Gaiety of Rediscoveries

Painting Put to the Test of Fixed Images

Incarnating the Character (1955-1967): Commissioned Portraits, or the Irony of Fame

Self-Portrait, or the Artist's Face Captured in Photographs

"We're Not Nonexistent Enough" May I take your Portrait, Dear RenT Magritte?

Epilogue: Please - You Look Like You've Just come from a Funeral

Notes

By the Same Author

Acknowledgements

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