Rene Magritte is firmly established as one of the most popular avant-garde artists of the the nineteenth century. However his commentators repeatedly fail to fully address and account for the philosophical implications and complexities of his oeuvre, instead offering accounts that largely ignore recent developments in art theory, and reading his paintings in relation to purely biographical or psychoanalytical contexts. This thesis attempts to situate Magritte's art in relation to a philosophical discourse which assumes language and representation as the underlying and inescapable structures of humane existence. The thesis will position and try to think about Magritte's images as critical engagements with surrealism and art, history and trad...
What is art? What counts as an aesthetic experience? Does art have to beautiful? Can one reasonably ...
The Question of Painting brings today’s much debated concerns about the socio-cultural and political...
peer reviewedIn1948, the Belgian painter René Magritte exhibited in an art gallery in Paris paintin...
Surrealist artist Rene Magritte read Foucault's book 'Words and Things', which was influenced by Vel...
This thesis examines the work of Marcel Broodthaers (1924-76). It analyses why and how he became an ...
Two collectors : an artist and his dealer. First reading of the unpublished correspondence between J...
In 1941 the Swiss art critic Pierre Courthion interviewed Henri Matisse while the artist was in bed ...
The status of titles in both painting and literature changed dramatically during the 19th century, a...
At first sight, the graphic non-biography Magritte: Ceci n’est pas une biographie (2016) seems to te...
peer reviewedThe research project, Magritte on practice, consists of the systematic study of the wor...
The status of titles in both painting and literature changed dramatically during the 19th century, ...
textThis thesis examines the impact of Maurice Maeterlinck’s ideas on modern artists. Maeterlinck's...
René Magritte, a one-time Surrealist, has begun quietly and rather belatedly invading our field of "...
textThis thesis explores the relationship between Marcel Duchamp’s oeuvre and the texts of the Comte...
René Magritte\u27s body of work demonstrates not only a loyalty to the principles of Belgian Surreal...
What is art? What counts as an aesthetic experience? Does art have to beautiful? Can one reasonably ...
The Question of Painting brings today’s much debated concerns about the socio-cultural and political...
peer reviewedIn1948, the Belgian painter René Magritte exhibited in an art gallery in Paris paintin...
Surrealist artist Rene Magritte read Foucault's book 'Words and Things', which was influenced by Vel...
This thesis examines the work of Marcel Broodthaers (1924-76). It analyses why and how he became an ...
Two collectors : an artist and his dealer. First reading of the unpublished correspondence between J...
In 1941 the Swiss art critic Pierre Courthion interviewed Henri Matisse while the artist was in bed ...
The status of titles in both painting and literature changed dramatically during the 19th century, a...
At first sight, the graphic non-biography Magritte: Ceci n’est pas une biographie (2016) seems to te...
peer reviewedThe research project, Magritte on practice, consists of the systematic study of the wor...
The status of titles in both painting and literature changed dramatically during the 19th century, ...
textThis thesis examines the impact of Maurice Maeterlinck’s ideas on modern artists. Maeterlinck's...
René Magritte, a one-time Surrealist, has begun quietly and rather belatedly invading our field of "...
textThis thesis explores the relationship between Marcel Duchamp’s oeuvre and the texts of the Comte...
René Magritte\u27s body of work demonstrates not only a loyalty to the principles of Belgian Surreal...
What is art? What counts as an aesthetic experience? Does art have to beautiful? Can one reasonably ...
The Question of Painting brings today’s much debated concerns about the socio-cultural and political...
peer reviewedIn1948, the Belgian painter René Magritte exhibited in an art gallery in Paris paintin...