Magritte

  • Magritte: A Life
    By Alex Danchev

    This is a vital biography for our time that plumbs the mystery of an iconoclast whose influence can be seen in everyone from Jasper Johns to Beyoncé.

  • Magritte: The Mystery of the Ordinary, 1926-1938
    By Stephanie D'Alessandro, Michel Draguet, Claude Goormans

    Published in conjunction with the exhibition ... held at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, Sept. 28, 2013-Jan. 12, 2014, the Menil Collection, Houston, Feb. 14-June 1, 2014, and at the Art Institute of Chicago, June 29-Oct. 12, 2014.

  • Magritte
    By Jacques Meuris

    The artist's most unforgettable images come together in an exquisite study of his life and work. This comprehensive and provocative monograph traces the influences on Magritte's art while 400 illustrations show the full range of his work.

  • Magritte
    By Marcel Paquet

    This introduction to Magritte presents key works from the artist's vast repertoire of visual humor, paradox, and surprise which makes us look and look again, not only at the painting, but at our sense of self and the world.

  • Magritte: A Life
    By Alex Danchev

    This is a vital biography for our time that plumbs the mystery of an iconoclast whose influence can be seen in everyone from Jasper Johns to Beyoncé.

  • Magritte: Colour Library
    By Richard Calvocoressi

    The paintings of the Belgian Surrealist René Magritte (1898-1967) have exerted an extraordinary fascination, particularly since the enormous increase in awareness and popularity of his work during the 1960s. Magritte...

  • Magritte: The Treachery of Images
    By Didier Ottinger

    This major new book on René Magritte offers fresh interpretations of the artist's use of symbols and imagery to articulate his particular brand of surrealism.

  • Magritte: This is Not a Biography
    By Vincent Zabus

    After donning a bowler hat that once belonged to Renâe Magritte, a man unwittingly enters the artist's off-kilter world. He must uncover the secrets of Magritte's life and work or be doomed to wear the hat forever.

  • Magritte
    By Richard Calvocoressi, René Magritte

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  • Magritte
    By Jacques Meuris

    The works of René Magritte and the ideas that underlie them are a special case both in the history of modern art and in surrealist painting.

  • Magritte: Attempting the Impossible
    By Siegfried Gohr

    The ongoing relevance of Belgian painter René Magritte may lie in the semiotic character of his work and its ability to create chasms between the world, its surfaces and the...

  • Magritte
    By Daniel Abadie

    A picture of a pipe is not really a pipe, and a daylight-filled sky can shine over a streetlamp-lit townhouse, and a painting of a window inside a painting of...

  • Magritte
    By René Magritte

    "This installation of the Modern Master series surveys the work of Rene Magritte, one of the most enigmatic artists of the 20th century and an important figure in the surrealist...

  • Magritte: Masters of Art
    By Alexander Adams

    Chronologically arranged, this volume features full- page reproductions of thirty-five works, each paired with a concise text that highlights its significance in Magritte’s catalog.