Canonne, Xavier,

René Magritte : the revealing image / Xavier Canonne ; translation, Donald Pistolesi. - 167 pages : illustrations (some colour) ; 31 cm

Includes bibliographical references.

A family album -- A family resemblance -- The resemblances of painting -- Reproduction permitted or photography enhanced -- The imitation of photography: Magritte and the cinema(tograph) -- The false mirror.

In 'René Magritte: The Revealing Image', a comprehensive catalog of Magritte's photography and film, we see Magritte with his parents and brothers, as a newly married man with his wife Georgette and with his contemporaries in the Brussels Surrealist group. Spontaneous snapshots are complemented by posed scenes, including improvised tableaus with his fellow artists, parodies of famous movies, portraits of Magritte at his easel and staged photographs that served as models for his paintings. Fans of Magritte's iconic paintings will find much to discover here; images where the artist and his friends hide their faces or turn away from the camera particularly resonate with his investigation of the "hidden visible".

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Magritte, René, 1898-1967 --Criticism and interpretation.


Surrealism--Belgium
Photography, Artistic.

N6973.M28 / C36 2017

709.04