Magritte: Colour Library

by Richard Calvocoressi, René Magritte, Suzi (Rene Magritte) Gablik

Book Overview

The paintings of the Belgian Surrealist Ren? Magritte (1898-1967) have exerted an extraordinary fascination, particularly since the enormous increase in awareness and popularity of his work during the 1960s. Magritte shows us a world of silence and isolation in which familiar objects are altered or juxtaposed in 'impossible' combinations in order to create a sense of disorientation and the absurd. Many of his most memorable paintings date from his...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0714827606
• ISBN13: 9780714827605
• Release Date: August 1998
• Publisher: Phaidon Press
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 8.9" x 12.0"

Customer Reviews

Top Quality Reproductions, Good Value for Money

If you are looking for a book offering lengthy and in-depth discussions about Magritte and his paintings, then this isn't the book for you. If, on the other hand, you are primarily interested in seeing good quality reproductions of a selection of his work, then this is an excellent choice. Although there is a decent several-page overview of Magritte at the start of the book, the main focus is the 48 full-page reproductions, each accompanied by a brief commentary. These commentaries do not offer much, but I personally am not really interested in someone else's interpretations of an artist's pictures, and Magritte himself said there was no 'required' interpretation for his paintings anyway. The book was a real 'grower' for me - some of the pictures that I didn't initially like I came to love over time - I feel they can have the power to speak to you very personally, and as a consequence this is a book I keep coming back to.