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Magritte: A Life de Alex Danchev

Magritte: A Life

Autor Alex Danchev
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 4 ian 2023
A SUNDAY TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR'The first significant biography of the artist' Michael Prodger, The Times' 'Best art books of 2021''Exemplary ... a scintillating read' Alastair Sooke, Daily Telegraph'For those who love Magritte and those who do not, Danchev's biography will come as a revelation' Literary ReviewRené Magritte's surreal sensibility, deadpan melodrama, and fine-tuned outrageousness have all become inescapably part of our times. But these groundbreaking subversions all came from a middle-class Belgian gent, who kept a modest house in a Brussels suburb and whose first one-man show sold absolutely nothing. Through a deep examination of Magritte's friendships and his artistic development, Alex Danchev explores the path of an highly unconventional artist who posed profound questions about the relationship between image and reality, challenged the very nature of authenticity and whose influence can be seen in the work of everyone from Jasper Johns to Beyoncé.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781781250785
ISBN-10: 1781250782
Pagini: 480
Ilustrații: X2 16P Plate SectionB&W Illustrations throughout
Dimensiuni: 152 x 232 x 40 mm
Greutate: 0.64 kg
Ediția:Main
Editura: Profile
Colecția Profile Books
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

Notă biografică

Alex Danchev was Professor of International Relations at the University of St Andrews. His books Cézanne: A Life (2012) won the Apollo Book of the Year Award in 2013, jointly with his translation of The Letters of Paul Cézanne (2013). He was also the author of a number of other internationally acclaimed biographies, and two influential collections of essays, On Art and War and Terror (2009) and On Good and Evil and the Grey Zone (2015); and editor of the best-selling 100 Artists' Manifestos (2011).

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Diligent and insightful ... Danchev proved an indefatigable researcher, and Sarah Whitfield does full justice to his labours
A virtuosic portrait of a star surrealist ... surely the definitive full-length biography ... immaculately researched, deeply felt
The first significant biography of the artist
Insightful and broad-reaching
Offers enthralling insight into the man behind the easel
Absorbing, masterful ... there are no lapses in this lively biography ... Magritte: A Life recounts the artist's life in a sympathetic and comprehensive manner, never reducing the mystery of one of the most influential of modern artists
[A] monumental biography of the inimitable surrealist artist ... sure to be the definitive account of the extraordinary artist's life
This is a fine book, and Whitfield's tenth chapter, covering the last twenty years of its subject's life, does Danchev's efforts full justice ... for those who love Magritte and those who do not, Danchev's biography will come as a revelation
Exemplary ... a scintillating read
Danchev's picture of [Magritte] is pointillist and enormous in scope. It is full of shock, for the casual Magritte fan who knows little about his life ... Biographies usually attribute weight to moments or eras in a person's life, building a narrative which will "explain" the artworks, but this one attempts no such thing ... Magritte: A Life paints scenes, all taken from life, but not forced into the realist mode which can constrain works of this type.
A fascinating portrait
Magritte could hardly be in safer hands
Praise for Alex Danchev's Cézanne: Danchev's Cézanne has... virtues of imaginative sympathy, independence of mind, and wide scholarship. He writes as if Cézanne's life and character are as immediately present before him as is the art.
A brave new life of Cézanne ... much of this new material successfully illuminates Cézanne's inner life. An important book.
This is the best account of [Cézanne's] astonishing career and Danchev responds to the challenge with great sensitivity and genuine brio. This is a book which will survive the test of time.
The most engrossing biography of an artist that I have read for years. With lightness of touch, depth of thought, a vast cultural hinterland and an assured understanding of painting, Danchev marvellously brings to life Cézanne the man, as well as the pioneering artist called "the father of us all" by Picasso.