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Subject(s)

• Magritte, René 1898-1967—Criticism and interpretation [Browse]
• Visual perception [Browse]

Series

Routledge research in art history [More in this series]

Summary note

For Rene Magritte, painting was a form of thinking. Through paintings of ordinary objects rendered with illusionism, Magritte probed the limits of our perception-what we see and cannot see, the nature of representation-as a philosophical system for presenting ideas, and explored perspective as a method of visual argumentation. This book makes the claim that Magritte's painting is about vision and the act of viewing, of perception itself, and the process of how we see and experience things in the world, including paintings as things.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references (pages 127-134) and index.

Contents

• Introduction
• Bringing thought to life
• The use of speech in painting
• The mystery of the visible
• Inspired thought
• Conclusion: ends and endings.

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ISBN

• 9781138054271 (hardcover : alkaline paper)
• 1138054275 (hardcover : alkaline paper)

LCCN

2018052681

OCLC

1065543049

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