René Magritte and the Art of Thinking
Download or Read eBook René Magritte and the Art of Thinking PDF written by Lisa Lipinski and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-04-04 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Author | : Lisa Lipinski |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 321 |
Release | : 2019-04-04 |
ISBN-10 | : 9781351626439 |
ISBN-13 | : 1351626434 |
Rating | : 4/5 (39 Downloads) |
Book Synopsis René Magritte and the Art of Thinking by : Lisa Lipinski
Book excerpt: For René 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.