René Magritte: The Fifth Season - Caitlin Haskell

René Magritte (1898â"1967) was one of the most intriguing painters associated with Surrealism, but he did not fully find his voice until after breaking ties with the movement. This book, the first to look exclusively at Magritteâs late career, examines his most important bodies of work from the 1940s through the 1960s, and shows how they marked a fundamental shift in painting from Modernism to our own time. Featuring more than sixty artworks, René Magritte: The Fifth Season explores how Magritte balanced irony and conviction, philosophy and fantasy, to illuminate the gaps between what we see and what we know. Subjects explored in this volume include the artistâs Renoir period; the période vache, with its Fauvist- and Expressionist-style paintings that are little known to American audiences; the âhypertrophy of objectsâ paintings, a series that plays with the scale of familiar objects; and the enigmatic Dominion of Light suite, paintings that suggest the simultaneous experience of day and night. Together, the works reveal Magritte as an artist acutely attuned to the paradoxes at work within reality, and an enduring champion of the role of mystery in life and art.

TITLE: René Magritte: The Fifth Season

AUTHOR: Caitlin Haskell

SKU: 9781942884231

PUBLISHER: Distributed Art Publishers

DATE PUBLISHED: 20180607

PLACE PUBLISHED: United States

PAGES: 154

DIMENSIONS: 268x215

WEIGHT: 990