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This is Magritte
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This is Magritte explores the life of Belgian artist René Magritte in a graphic-novel style.His biography is a key element of his art and his life was infused with bizarre moments: a surreal journey oscillating between fact and fiction that he always conducted as the straight-faced bowler-hatted man.
The events of Magritte's childhood played an important part in creating the surrealist, but it was his popular culture borrowings from crime fiction, advertising and postcards that has made his work instantly recognizable. The often unreliable nature of Magritte's accounts of his own life have transformed his public image into a kind of fictional character rather than a 'real person'. He would shape his own life story to be its own surreal work of art.
Author Patricia Allmer, illustrated by Iker Spozio.
- Paperback
- 80 pages, 7 x 9 x 0.8 in.
- Appropriate for ages 14 and up
The events of Magritte's childhood played an important part in creating the surrealist, but it was his popular culture borrowings from crime fiction, advertising and postcards that has made his work instantly recognizable. The often unreliable nature of Magritte's accounts of his own life have transformed his public image into a kind of fictional character rather than a 'real person'. He would shape his own life story to be its own surreal work of art.
Author Patricia Allmer, illustrated by Iker Spozio.
- Paperback
- 80 pages, 7 x 9 x 0.8 in.
- Appropriate for ages 14 and up