204 results for "Magritte" between $5.00 and $350.00

Pages: 336, Edition: First English Edition, Hardcover, D.A.P./Distributed Art Publishers, Inc.

Genre: Biography + Autobiography, Art. Subgenre: History / Modern (late 19th Century to 1945), General, Individual Artist. Age: 9-12 years. Publisher: Childrens Pr. Pages: 32. Language: English. Format: paperback. Release Date: August 1, 2003. Date Published: August 1, 2003.

Now available on DVD. Friendly narration and beautifully reproduced artwork make this DVD series a great way to introduce students grade three through adult to the life and work of famous artists. The interactive approach of each DVD encourages students to evaluate paintings as they are presented. At the end of the video viewers are asked to match the artwork to the artist. A great addition to any art teacher's resource center, the complete set presents 18 artists and over 75 works. Each DVD is approximately...

Pages: 30, Hardcover, Prestel Publishing

"The Portable Magritte" represents a new approach to the enjoyment and study of art in book form. With more than 400 color reproductions and a compact handheld size, this book manages to be affordable and comprehensive. It's like a catalogue raisonne that fits in a backpack. This accessible format is a perfect match for the paintings of Rene Magritte-one of the few twentieth-century painters whose works are immediately approachable and who has an enduring cultlike following. His surrealistic and...

Publisher: Andre De Rache Publisher Year: 1965 Edition: First Edition Book Condition: Very Good Jacket Condition: Fair Binding: Hard Cover Publish Place: N/A Notes: Edge wear to jacket with a 1" by 1" piece missing on bottom end of spine and bottom right corner of front jacket panel. Book is in a somewhat rough cardboard slipcase.

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Gohr, Siegfried. MAGRITTE: Attempting the Impossible. 324 pages, 386 color and 43 b&w illustrations. Folio, cloth. New York, DAP, 2009.

Going even further than their predecessors, the artists of the Post-Impressionist movement were as diverse as their painting styles. In this six-disc series you can examine the life and work of Cezanne, ... more

Clever illustrations and story lines, together with full-color reproductions of actual paintings, give children a light yet realistic overview of each artist's life and style in these fun and educational books.

Born in Brussels in 1936, Pierre Sterckx is a writer, critic and scholar from Belgium. As an art critic, he befriended the famous artist Herge, author of Tintin, and wrote many books about this most famous graphic novel character. Since 2008, he has been a columnist for cultural French TV show and has collaborated with Beaux-Arts Magazine since 1997.

How are we to define what is grotesque, in art or literature? Since the Renaissance the term has been used for anything from the fantastic to the monstrous, and been associated with many artistic genres, from the Gothic to the danse macabre. Shun-Liang Chao's new study adopts a rigorous approach by establishing contradictory physicality and the notion of metaphor as two keys to the construction of a clear identity of the grotesque. With this approach, Chao explores the imagery of Richard Crashaw...

ISBN-10: 0856674230 ISBN-13: 9780856674235. Edition: .

While there have been many studies of the influence of Magritte's work on other artists of his generation, there have been none which have studied the precise connections between Magritte's work and today's top contemporary artists. This catalogue, documenting an exhibition at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, juxtaposes work by Magritte with significant works by Jasper Johns, Ed Ruscha, Vija Celmins, Sherri Levine, Martin Kippenberger, Robert Gober and Raymond Pettibon, among others.

Though full of subconscious upwellings and startling conjunctions of seemingly unrelated objects, Rene Magritte's paintings are not dreamscapes, according to French art critic Meuris. With every painting, the Belgian surrealist, whose work is "governed by 'thought,' " challenges his viewer's intellect and assumptions about reality. Observes Meuris in Magrittian fashion: "Magritte is not a painter, while yet being a great painter." Images are unraveled as Meuris looks at Magritte's work, including...

Journey through a fantastical land where anything is possible. From trees with faces to men raining from the sky, René Magritte's delightful artwork is sure to ignite the imaginations of the very youngest readers.