We could say that Magritte (1898-1967) wrote the book on being a conceptual artist, though we should not blame him for Jeff Koons. In “The Treachery of Images” (1929), ...

MAGRITTE A Life By Alex Danchev with Sarah Whitfield. Even people who do not recognize the name René Magritte are likely to recognize his bowler-hatted man, that solitary wanderer in a dark ...

René Magritte loved tales of mystery, and the best approach to understanding the iconic artist’s life is as a mystery. So argues an insightful and broad-reaching new biography by the late Alex ...

Unlike his surrealist contemporaries, Rene Magritte tended to keep Freud at a distance from his work — though few artists offer as much scope for armchair analysis. Speaking in 1961, he observed that ...

Kathleen Rooney's most recent project, René Magritte: Selected Writings, co-edited with Eric Plattner, is somewhat out of the ordinary for this Chicago-based writer. This book offers English ...

Now, more than half way through the book, the narrative picks up pace, Magritte is in fine form and takes up an interesting commission in England from Edward James, an ostentatious aristocrat, ...

This image, of two little boys absolutely spackled with goo, appears on page 11 of Alex Danchev’s new biography, Magritte: A Life, and would not leave my mind until I had turned the final one.It ...

The paintings of the Belgian surrealist RenéMagritte, famous from book covers, walls of college dorm rooms, record albums and myriad other subtle and not so subtle pop-culture appropriations, are ...

The book is endlessly inventive in using Magritte’s works as inspirations, and often as settings as well. For instance, Singulier wanders among Magritte’s peculiar landscapes, ...

Unlike his surrealist contemporaries, Rene Magritte tended to keep Freud at a distance from his work — though few artists offer as much scope for armchair analysis. Speaking in 1961, he observed that ...