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Chapters: The Human Condition, the Difficult Crossing, the Treachery of Images, Golconda, the Son of Man, Time Transfixed, Not to Be Reproduced, the Listening Room, on the Threshold of Liberty, the Menaced Assassin, the Portrait, Elective Affinities, the Mysteries of the Horizon, the Empty Mask. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 38. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: The Human Condition (La condition humaine) generally refers to two similar oil on canvas paintings by the Belgian surrealist René Magritte. One was completed in 1933 and is in the collection of the National Gallery of Art in Washington DC. The other was completed in 1935 and is part of the Simon Spierer Collection in Geneva, Switzerland. A number of drawings of the same name exist as well, including one at the Cleveland Museum of Art. One of Magritte's most common artistic devices was the use of objects to hide what lies behind. For example, in The Son of Man (1964) an apple hides the face of a bowler-hatted man and in The Pleasure Principle (1937) a bright flash likewise obscures a face. In The Human Condition, the cover-up appears in the form a painting within a painting. Magritte had this to say of his 1933 work: In front of a window seen from inside a room, I placed a painting representing exactly that portion of the landscape covered by the painting. Thus, the tree in the picture hid the tree behind it, outside the room. For the spectator, it was both inside the room within the painting and outside in the real landscape.Paintings within paintings appear frequently in Magritte works. Euclidean Walks (1955) is a work perhaps most like The Human Condition. It places a canvas in front of a high window depicting the tower of a close building and a street below. In The Fair Captive (1947), there is a beach scene with an ...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=18406986 ... Read more

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Kapitel: René Magritte, Thomas Quellinus, Fernand Khnopff, Constant Permeke, Cornelis Floris Ii., Eugène Dodeigne, Pol Bury, Constantin Meunier, Marc Mendelson, Panamarenko, Paul Van Hoeydonck, Antoine Tassaert, Willem Van Den Broeck, Roel D'haese, Berlinde de Bruyckere, Vic Gentils, Jean-Michel Folon, Mathieu Ignace Van Brée, Rombout Keldermans, Alexander Colin, Georges Vantongerloo, Octave Landuyt, Raoul Ubac, Louis Jéhotte, Gustave Van Vaerenbergh, Frans-Andries Durlet, Mathieu Kessels, Charles Auguste Fraikin. Aus Wikipedia. Nicht dargestellt. Auszug: René François Ghislain Magritte (21 November 1898 - 15 August 1967) was a Belgian surrealist artist. He became well known for a number of witty and thought-provoking images. His intended goal for his work was to challenge observers' preconditioned perceptions of reality and force viewers to become hypersensitive to their surroundings. Magritte was born in Lessines, in the province of Hainaut, in 1898, the eldest son of Léopold Magritte, who was a tailor and textile merchant, and Régina (née Bertinchamps), a milliner until her marriage. Little is known about Magritte's early life. He began lessons in drawing in 1910. On 12 March 1912, his mother committed suicide by drowning herself in the River Sambre. This was not her first attempt; she had made many over a number of years, driving her husband Léopold to lock her into her bedroom. One day she escaped, and was missing for days. She was later discovered a mile or so down the nearby river, dead. According to a legend, 13-year-old Magritte was present when her body was retrieved from the water, but recent research has discredited this story, which may have originated with the family nurse. Supposedly, when his mother was found, her dress was covering her face, an image that has been suggested as the source of several paintings Magritte painted in 1927-1928 of people with cloth obscuring their faces, including Les Amants. Magritte'...http://booksllc.net/?l=de ... Read more

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Chapters: History of Painting, André Breton, René Magritte, Les Automatistes, Cubomania, Post-Surrealism, Surrealist Women, Jean Arp, 'pataphysics, Collage, Bridget Bate Tichenor, the Gas Heart, Birmingham Surrealists, Edward James, Bizarro Fiction, Juan Eduardo Cirlot, Acéphale, Dora Maar, S.o.s. Titanic, Cabaret Voltaire, Massurrealism, Surrealist Manifesto, La Révolution Surréaliste, Profane Illumination, Georges Malkine, Dyn, Neosurrealism, Surreal Humour, the Surrealist Group in Stockholm, Greta Knutson, Documents, Hélène Smith, Chicago Surrealist Group, Juxtapoz, Robert Melville, Salvador Dalí Museum, Metaphysical Art, Refus Global, Brave Destiny, View, Surrealist Music, le Surrealisme Au Service de La Revolution, Radovan Ivšić, Un Cadavre, Martian Poetry, Anthology of Black Humor, Arturo Schwarz, Enrico Baj, Vvv, Arsenal/surrealist Subversion, Philippe Soupault, Panic Movement, Jacques Vaché, Mary Ann Caws, Minotaure, London International Surrealist Exhibition, Biomorphism, Dau Al Set, Vienna School of Fantastic Realism, British Surrealist Group, Mound, Transautomatism, Bureau of Surrealist Research, Georges Hugnet, Loplop, Organic Surrealism. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 354. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: The history of painting reaches back in time to artifacts from pre-historic humans, and spans all cultures, that represents a continuous, though disrupted, tradition from Antiquity. Across cultures, and spanning continents and millennia, the history of painting is an ongoing river of creativity, that continues into the 21st century. Until the early 20th century it relied primarily on representational, religious and classical motifs, after which time more purely abstract and conceptual approaches gained favor. Developments in Eastern painting historically parallel tho...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=13971 ... Read more