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Magritte and Literature : Elective Affinities

By: (Author) Ben Stoltzfus

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Ksh 7,500.00

Format: Paperback / Softback

ISBN-10: 9058679608

ISBN-13: 9789058679604

Publisher: Leuven University Press

Imprint: Leuven University Press

Country of Manufacture: BE

Country of Publication: GB

Publication Date: Jan 13th, 2014

Print length: 296 Pages

Weight: 688 grams

Dimensions (height x width x thickness): 17.00 x 23.00 x 1.70 cms

Product Classification: Theory of art

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This book examines some of the artist's major paintings whose titles were influenced by and related to works of literature.

The Belgian Surrealist artist René Magritte (1898–1967) is well known for his thought-provoking and witty images that challenge the observer’s preconditioned perceptions of reality. Magritte and Literature examines some of the artist''s major paintings whose titles were influenced by and related to works of literature. Baudelaire''s The Flowers of Evil, Goethe''s Elective Affinities, and Poe''s The Domain of Arnheim are representative examples of Magritte''s interarts dialogue with literary figures.Despite these convergences, the titles subvert the images in his paintings. It is the two images together that express the aesthetics of Surrealism—for example, the juxtaposition of unrelated objects whose purpose is to spark recognition. Magritte''s challenge to representation compares with metafiction''s challenge to classic realism, Les Chants de Maldoror, for example, and the intersecting space between art and writing, sometimes referred to as the iconotext, manifests itself whenever Magritte borrows a literary title for a painting. His strategy is to paint visible thought, and this reverse ekphrasis, the opposite of a rhetorical description, undermines the written text. When he succeeds, the effect is poetry.


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