Magritte, the True Art of Painting

Magritte, the true art of painting

MAGRITTE, René

Thames and Hudson

"It begins with a stone falling, in the silence, vertically, immobile. It is falling from a great height, a meteor, a massive, compact, oblong block of rock, like a giant egg with a pocked, uneven surface."The opening sentence of La Belle Captive introduces a dreamworld where the conventions of the traditional novel have been overthrown. Objects move through space without regard to laws of nature, characters move through the text in a maddening complex of events.Published in 1975, Alain Robbe-Grillet's nouveau roman is illustrated with 77 paintings by René Magritte. Robbe-Grillet uses Magritte's paintings as pretexts for the novel, letting them generate themes for an imaginary discourse that parallels their imagery, glosses them, contradicts them. Simultaneously, he comments on Magritte's paintings while taking advantage of them to parade his own favorite themes: play, eroticism, subversion. Robbe-Grillet gives us a plot that frustrates expectations yet shares his pleasure with the mysterious and poetic in Magritte's art, and with the cultural myths that painter and novelist both parody.The book includes a critical essay by novelist and translator Ben Stoltzfus on the pictorial and linguistic affinities between Magritte and Robbe-Grillet. Stoltzfus explores the image of the beautiful captive not only in her mythical and erotic dimensions, but also as a metaphor for the artistic process.

La Belle Captive: A Novel

Literature & Fiction

ROBBE-GRILLET, ALAIN

History & Criticism

University of California Press

"It begins with a stone falling, in the silence, vertically, immobile. It is falling from a great height, a meteor, a massive, compact, oblong block of rock, like a giant egg with a pocked, uneven surface." The opening sentence of La Belle Captive introduces a dreamworld where the conventions of the traditional novel have been overthrown. Objects move through space without regard to laws of nature, characters move through the text in a maddening complex of events. Published in 1975, Alain Robbe-Grillet's nouveau roman is illustrated with 77 paintings by René Magritte. Robbe-Grillet uses Magritte's paintings as pretexts for the novel, letting them generate themes for an imaginary discourse that parallels their imagery, glosses them, contradicts them. Simultaneously, he comments on Magritte's paintings while taking advantage of them to parade his own favorite themes: play, eroticism, subversion. Robbe-Grillet gives us a plot that frustrates expectations yet shares his pleasure with the mysterious and poetic in Magritte's art, and with the cultural myths that painter and novelist both parody. The book includes a critical essay by novelist and translator Ben Stoltzfus on the pictorial and linguistic affinities between Magritte and Robbe-Grillet. Stoltzfus explores the image of the beautiful captive not only in her mythical and erotic dimensions, but also as a metaphor for the artistic process.

Another title from The Crown Art Library, the most useful monographs available on a wide range of significant artists. Each volume is written by an internationally recognized authority and is generously illustrated with full-color reproductions of the artist's paintings and two-color reproductions of sketches and line drawings.

Magritte

Arts & Photography

Phaidon Press

Reference

Catalogs & Directories

Phaidon

Hardcover 1996 64p. 12.25"x9.70"x0.70" Surrealism 75 Illustrationns,including 63 plates in full color.

Magritte (Great Modern Masters)

Faerna, José María

Harry N.Abrams, Inc.

Magritte 1898-1967

Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium

Individual Artists

Abradale/Abrams

Pritzker, Pamela

Collections, Catalogs & Exhibitions

Leon Amiel

Acknowledgements.Introduction.The Extent of Hunger.A Short History of Hunger.Population and Poverty.The Growth of World Food Output.The Expansion of the World's Arable Land.Agricultural Development in Developed Countries Since 1945.Tropical Africa.Latin America.0. Asia.1. Trade and Aid.2. Conclusions.3. Index.

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

Gohr, Siegfried

San Francisco Museum

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