René Magritte Beyond Painting

by Allmer, Patricia

• ISBN13: 9780719079283
• ISBN10: 0719079284
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2009-11-23
• Publisher: OXFORD UNIV PR

Summary

This book offers a rethinking of Magritte's art from a position informed by contemporary developments in art theory. The book employs a wide range of literary and philosophical/cultural theoretical frameworks to analyse Magritte's art. It offers close readings of specific images, paying attention to neglected aspects of Magritte's work, discussing the significance of cabinets of curiosities and encyclopaedias, trompe l'oeil, framing and forgeries. It addresses a range of intertextual relations between Magritte's work and that of other Surrealist artists and the art-historical tradition. This book explores how Magritte's art challenges conventional notions of originality, canonicity and coherence, revealing his work as being shaped by co-operations and co-options. It demonstrates that uncertainty, incoherence and negation lie at the core of Magritte's oeuvre.

Author Biography

Patricia Allmer is Research Fellow in Art History at MIRIAD (Manchester Institute for Research and Innovation in Art and Design), at Manchester Metropolitan University.

Table of Contents

List of plates	p. vii
List of figures	p. ix
Acknowledgements	p. xv
Retheorising Magritte	p. 1
Cabinets of curiosities	p. 21
Forging the past and the present	p. 48
Elective affinities: between words and images	p. 81
Dialogues entirely painted by hand	p. 108
Framing the real	p. 148
Artistic identity reproduced	p. 180
Coda: after Magritte	p. 200
List of abbreviations	p. 221
Bibliography	p. 222
Index	p. 232
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