René Magritte and the Art of Thinking

René Magritte and the Art of Thinking - Routledge Research in Art History

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Publisher's Synopsis

For René 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.

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Book information

ISBN: 9781138054271
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Imprint: Routledge
Pub date:
DEWEY: 759.9493
DEWEY edition: 23
Language: English
Number of pages: xvi, 139
Weight: 520g
Height: 180mm
Width: 253mm
Spine width: 15mm