René Magritte : selected writings / edited by Kathleen Rooney and Eric Plattner ; translated by Jo Levy ; preface by Sandra Zalman.

Author
Magritte, René, 1898-1967 [Browse]
Uniform title
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2016.
Description
1 online resource (xxiii, 286 pages .)

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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Print version record.
Contents
  • Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Key to the Abbreviations in the Annotations; Editors' Note on French Titles; The Double Agent: A Preface; The Alphabet of Revelations: An Introduction; Selected Writings; Pure Art: A Defence of the Aesthetic; Norine Blues; Texts from 391; Texts from Période; Texts from Œsophage; Texts from Marie; You; The Legs of the Sky; Nick Carter; Personal Experience; The Man with the Aimless Face; "He Had Set out Alone & ; Notes on Fantômas; "All Precautions & ; "Her Heart Is Mine & ; The Colours of the Night; "Communal Action &
  • Reply to the Questionnaire on Love"Poetry & ; Words and Images; Space of a Thought; "Detective Rodiston & ; Surrealist Games; Ariadne's Thread; Reply to the Questionnaire on the Crisis in Painting; Georges Braque; Exhibitions: Georges Rogy, W. Bartoszewicz, Alfred Wickenburg at the Palais des Beaux-Arts; London Lecture; "My Dear & ; "Dear Jef & ; Life Line; Bourgeois Art; For L'Invention collective; "R.M. Has Changed & ; The Paint Seller, or The Labour of Man; Magic Lines; Homage to James Ensor; Three Pamphlets; A New Cultural Initiative from the College of Art; Texts from Le Suractuel.
  • Le Jour nul des PoètesFrancis Picabia: Animated Painting; Surrealism in the Sunshine: 1. Quarrel of the Sun; Surrealism in the Sunshine: 2. Manifesto of Extra-Mentalism (Notes); Surrealism in the Sunshine: 3. Manifesto No. 1
  • October 1946; Surrealism in the Sunshine: 4. Manifesto No. 2
  • November 1946; Surrealism in the Sunshine: 5. Manifesto of Amentalism; Le Savoir Vivre; Magritte and the Communist Party: 1."Clarification & ; Magritte and the Communist Party: 2. From A Letter to the Communist Party of Belgium; Magritte and the Communist Party: 3. Letter to Le Drapeau rouge.
  • Magritte Interviewed by Louis Quiévreux"Aesthetic Pleasure & ; On Titles; Magritte Interviewed by André Gomez; The Real Art of Painting; The Call of Blood; Letter to Micro-Magazine; Henri Heerbrant; Battle of Wits; Note to the Communist Party; The Condemned Man; "A Man of the People & ; "It Is Difficult & ; Two of a Kind; Magritte Interviewed by Maurice Bots; Reply to the Questionnaire: The Matter of Revolt; "I Am Thinking about & ; A Great Neglected Painter: Permantier; Roundelay; "Evidence & ; Nat Pinkerton; M.'s Useless Painting; On Jane Graverol; The Reconciliation; "Mallarmé's Death &
  • Reply to the Questionnaire on SexualityAutobiographical Sketch; Thought and Images; Magritte Interviewed by Jean Stévo (I); Reply to the Questionnaire: "Does Thought & ; A Poetic Art; The End of the Octroi; Variants of Sadness; The Ignorant Fairy; L'Empire des Lumières; Aphorisms (Dated); Magritte's Speech on Being Elected as a Member of the Académie Picard; "A Judgement on Art & ; "Surrealism & ; "The Charm of the Strange & ; René Magritte Puts the Image in Focus; In René Magritte's Night the Sky Floats over Us All; Nature and Mystery; Magritte Interviewed by Georges d'Amphoux.
ISBN
  • 9781452954912 ((electronic bk.))
  • 1452954917 ((electronic bk.))
OCLC
958279461
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