Bibliograph

Magritte, the silence of the world, David Sylvester

Type

Label

Magritte, the silence of the world, David Sylvester

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 321-322) and indexes

resource.biographical

individual biography

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Magritte

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

24846694

Responsibility statement

David Sylvester

Sub title

the silence of the world

Summary

"The purpose of this book, written in conjunction with the Magritte catalogue raisonné, is to look at the artist and his art in ways which lie outside the scope of that publication ... It discusses the long-term development of images and ideas' and it ventures opinions about events and patterns in the artist's life"--Page [7]

Table Of Contents

In a grey country -- A missing person -- Superior powers -- Into Modernism -- Moving among movements -- On active service -- A nice steady bourgeois life -- Together -- Defence of the aesthetic -- Finding a subject -- The piano teacher -- Into Surrealism -- Alfa Romeo, Norine & Co -- Under contract -- The methods of the Party -- The silence of the world -- Scripts -- Handpainted collage -- On the fringes -- Another Surrealism -- Complicity -- Figures in space -- Disappearances -- Membership -- Words as images -- Changing partners -- Isolation -- The retreat from Paris -- Studio Dongo -- Exhibitions and liquidations -- His friend in spite of himself -- Given objects -- The egg in the cage -- Completing the image -- Overseas trade -- In the company of poets -- In search of light -- Enter a dancer -- Up yours -- At the casino -- Changing the world -- The treadmill -- And then there was one -- An irreducible image

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