René Magritte and the Art of Thinking

ISBN-13: 9781138054271 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 140 str.

Lisa Lipinski (The George Washington Uni

Opis

For Rene Magritte, painting was a form of thinking. Through paintings of ordinary objects rendered with illusionism, Magritte probed the limits of our perception-what we see and cannot see, the nature of representation-as a philosophical system for presenting ideas, and explored perspective as a method of visual argumentation. This book makes the claim that Magritte's painting is about vision and the act of viewing, of perception itself, and the process of how we see and experience things in the world, including paintings as things.

O autorze

Lisa Lipinski is Assistant Professor of art history at The George Washington University, USA.