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Author: Alex Danchev ,
Sarah Whitfield
Publisher: Random House USA Inc
Imprint: Pantheon
Dimensions:
Width: 18.70cm
, Height: 3.80cm
, Length: 24.20cm
Weight: 0.981kg
ISBN: 9780307908193
ISBN 10: 0307908194
Pages: 480
Publication Date: 30 November 2021
Audience:
General/trade
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General
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
Monumental . . . A fascinating study of a man whose 'stunning imagination ha[s] revolutionized what we see and how we understand' . . . Sure to be the definitive account of the extraordinary artist's life. -Publishers Weekly
Far from underestimating Magritte, Danchev's picture of him is pointillist and enormous in scope. It is full of shock. -Jo Livingstone, The New Republic Thoroughly and gruesomely entertaining . . . Danchev is right to call Magritte 'the dream merchant of our time.' Magritte's studiously underplayed paintings are a modern image bank, and we draw on it unknowingly every time we see the Apple logo . . . A fascinating biography. -Dominic Green, The Wall Street Journal Clouds, pipes, bowler hats, umbrellas and green apples: the thought-provoking works of Belgian surrealist artist Rene Magritte continue to fascinate. The late Alex Danchev offers enthralling insight into the man behind the easel. -The Herald Sinuous . . . [Danchev] has uncovered a life that was by turns quirky, controversial, and tinged by tragedy . . . This book leaves no doubt that the image Magritte maintained of himself as a regular citizen living a quiet life in a nondescript Brussels neighborhood was indeed performance art of the highest order. -Tobias Grey, Airmail Diligent and insightful . . . Danchev proved an indefatigable researcher, and Sarah Whitfield does full justice to his labors in completing [the] final chapter of Magritte's life. -Tim Adams, The Guardian Monumental . . . A fascinating study of a man whose 'stunning imagination ha[s] revolutionized what we see and how we understand' . . . Sure to be the definitive account of the extraordinary artist's life. -Publishers Weekly
Thoroughly and gruesomely entertaining . . . Danchev is right to call Magritte 'the dream merchant of our time.' Magritte's studiously underplayed paintings are a modern image bank, and we draw on it unknowingly every time we see the Apple logo . . . A fascinating biography. -Dominic Green, The Wall Street Journal Monumental . . . A fascinating study of a man whose 'stunning imagination ha[s] revolutionized what we see and how we understand' . . . Sure to be the definitive account of the extraordinary artist's life. -Publishers Weekly
Author Information
ALEX DANCHEV is the author of the biographies Georges Braque: A Life and Cézanne: A Life; a translation of The Letters of Paul Cézanne; and the essay collections On Art and War and Terror, On Good and Evil and the Grey Zone, and 100 Artists’ Manifestos: From the Futurists to the Stuckists. For three years before his death in 2016 (as he was finishing this biography), Danchev was a professor of international relations at the University of St. Andrews, in Scotland. SARAH WHITFIELD is an art historian. She is the co-editor of René Magritte: Catalogue Raisonné, and she serves on the René Magritte authentication committee.
