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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"Magritte"”.
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Magritte and the Muse
<p>René Magritte's body of work demonstrates not only a loyalty to the principles of Belgian Surrealism but also to those of Breton's mainstream Parisian group. His connection to the latter is particularly evident in the artist's paintings of the female nude produced from 1930-1962. Today, these of …
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Image, text and the female body : René Magritte and the surrealist publications
… speech Qu'est-ce que le Surrealisme? with Rene Magritte's drawing, "Le Viol" (The Rape) on its cover. The image, a view of a woman's head in which her facial features have been replaced by her torso, was meant to shock the viewer out of complacent acceptance of present reality into "surreality," …
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Rene Magritte's segmented women: Studies based on two paintings in the Menil Collection (Belgium)
Rene Magritte, Surrealist painter, represented women in segmented forms. He enclosed portions of female anatomy in frames and painted representations of broken, sculpted torsos. In this he was inspired by the example of de Chirico's poetic painting, Rodin's use of partial forms to represent whole …
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The Threshold – a Place of the Hunchback. Violence and Transformation in works by Géricault, Dix, Salomon, Magritte, and Kafka
… art and literature of Géricault, Dix, Salomon, Magritte and Kafka. This violence may be invisible. In Foucault’s thought modern power functions as a normalising system that goes beyond the state. In Agamben violence is ubiquitous, realised in a dispersed mode of sovereign power as a state of …
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Two Annunciations: Examples of interpellation or offers of reception? a comparative analysis of pictures by Roger van der Weyden and René Magritte.
… der Weyden and Personal Values (1952) by René Magritte. It demonstrates that interpellation and reception are part of the same process, and that reception theory is especially suited to this comparison and analysis-because it allows consideration of ways in which the comparable pictorial …
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Loners : working from a pattern
… work from Marcel Duchamp, Edward Keinholz, Rene Magritte, Joseph Beuys, Eugene Atget, Arthur Fellig (Weegee), David Hoffos, Sarah Lucas, Tracey Emin, Mike Kelly, Allyson Mitchell, Madonna, Weird Al.
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Armas do desenho : análise da minha produção de 1992 e 1993
… desenhos, do trabalho de Jasper Johns e René Magritte. Além de uma breve revisão da importância do desenho como meio técnico na elaboração de imagens,essa dissertação relaciona, no tocante à produção das minhas imagens, os conceitos peirceanos de signo(principalmente ícone e índice), …
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Oblique Strategies: Queer Opacity in Figurative Painting
… Surrealist provocations of Belgian artist Rene Magritte. The variety of historical and contemporary forms suffusing this doctoral study contributes to a sense of bricolage that is a key characteristic of the creative work. In this regard, the collision of diverse elements within the studio …
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Oblique Strategies: Queer Opacity in Figurative Painting
… Surrealist provocations of Belgian artist Rene Magritte. The variety of historical and contemporary forms suffusing this doctoral study contributes to a sense of bricolage that is a key characteristic of the creative work. In this regard, the collision of diverse elements within the studio …
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Les pas perdus: Images of Feet and Shoes in Surrealist Art
<p>Although feet and shoes appear throughout surrealist visual art, their significance within surrealist theory has not been studied as thoroughly as other familiar themes of surrealist art, such as the eye or the hat. The purpose of this project is to recover feet and shoes from their lowly …
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SURREALIST CASTLE CULTURE: GOTHIC TRACES IN SURREALIST AESTHETICS
This thesis examines the relationship between Surrealism and the Gothic novel. To date, few studies have examined why the Gothic novel appealed to the Surrealist sensibility. In particular, the neo-Gothic referents in Surrealist visual art have been largely ignored. The clearest connection between …