{"product_id":"magritte-a-life-9780307908193","title":"Magritte: A Life","description":"\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe first major biography of the pathbreaking, perpetually influential surrealist artist and iconoclast whose inspiration can be seen in everyone from Jasper Johns to Beyoncé--by the celebrated biographer of Cézanne and Braque\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn this thought-provoking life of René Magritte (1898‒1967), Alex Danchev makes a compelling case for Magritte as the single most significant purveyor of images to the modern world. Magritte's surreal sensibility, deadpan melodrama, and fine-tuned outrageousness have become an inescapable part of our visual landscape, through such legendary works as \u003ci\u003eThe Treachery of Images (Ceci n'est pas une pipe), \u003c\/i\u003eand his celebrated iterations of \u003ci\u003eMan in a Bowler Hat.\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDanchev explores the path of this highly unconventional artist, from his middle-class Belgian beginnings to the years in which he led a small, brilliant band of surrealists (and famously clashed with André Breton) to his first major retrospective, which traveled to the United States in 1965 and gave rise to his international reputation. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eUsing thirty-two pages of color images and more than 160 black-and-white illustrations throughout the text, Danchev delves deeply into Magritte's artistic development and the profound questions he raised in his work about the very nature of authenticity.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Danchev, Alex\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/30\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Pantheon Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780307908193\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 480\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 2.15lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.50h x 7.20w x 1.70d","brand":"Alex Danchev","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39621983141963,"sku":"9780307908193","price":45.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0021\/1697\/6715\/products\/img_11330df5-a1ee-4753-b5a3-3132108b06d3.jpg?v=1640091114","url":"https:\/\/blackbookstore.com\/products\/magritte-a-life-9780307908193","provider":"Black Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}