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Magritte and contemporary art : the treachery of images /

By: Contributor(s): Publication details: Los Angeles : Los Angeles County Museum of Art ; Ghent : Ludion ; ©2006.Description: 255 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 31 cmISBN:
  • 9055446211
  • 9789055446216
  • 0875871968
  • 9780875871967
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Contents:
Foreword / Michael Govan -- Enigma : the problem(s) of René Magritte / Stephanie Barron -- The treachery of images : keys for a pop reading of the work of Magritte / Michel Draguet -- Magritte's last laugh : a surrealist's reception in America / Dickran Tashjian -- Alexander Iolas : the influence of Magritte's American dealer / Theresa Papanikolas -- Passing the hat : René Magritte and William Copley / Sara Cochran -- Harry Torczyner, Magrittean ambassador to America / Michel Draguet -- A deliberate accident : Magritte in the collection of John and Dominique de Menil / Theresa Papanikolas -- This wouldn't be a pipe : Magritte and Marcel Broodthaers / Thierry de Duve -- René Magritte and Jasper Johns : making thoughts visible / Roberta Bernstein -- René Magritte and Richard Artschwager : personal values / Richard Armstrong -- An interview with Ed Ruscha / Lynn Zelevansky -- Freeze-frame : in conversation with Vija Celmins / Sara Cochran -- "Who you are and where you come from" : Robert Gober and René Magritte / Pepe Karmel -- La période vache : a latter-day epidemic / Nöellie Roussel -- Checklist of the exhibition -- Magritte chronology -- Selected bibliography -- Acknowledgments -- Lenders to the exhibition -- Illustration credits -- Index.
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Book Book Whitecliffe Library General Shelves General N 6973 MAG BAR (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 0007670

Published in conjunction with an exhibition of the same name held Nov. 19, 2006-Mar. 4, 2007 at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.

" ... with the collaboration of the Magritte Foundation, Brussels."

Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-248) and index.

Foreword / Michael Govan -- Enigma : the problem(s) of René Magritte / Stephanie Barron -- The treachery of images : keys for a pop reading of the work of Magritte / Michel Draguet -- Magritte's last laugh : a surrealist's reception in America / Dickran Tashjian -- Alexander Iolas : the influence of Magritte's American dealer / Theresa Papanikolas -- Passing the hat : René Magritte and William Copley / Sara Cochran -- Harry Torczyner, Magrittean ambassador to America / Michel Draguet -- A deliberate accident : Magritte in the collection of John and Dominique de Menil / Theresa Papanikolas -- This wouldn't be a pipe : Magritte and Marcel Broodthaers / Thierry de Duve -- René Magritte and Jasper Johns : making thoughts visible / Roberta Bernstein -- René Magritte and Richard Artschwager : personal values / Richard Armstrong -- An interview with Ed Ruscha / Lynn Zelevansky -- Freeze-frame : in conversation with Vija Celmins / Sara Cochran -- "Who you are and where you come from" : Robert Gober and René Magritte / Pepe Karmel -- La période vache : a latter-day epidemic / Nöellie Roussel -- Checklist of the exhibition -- Magritte chronology -- Selected bibliography -- Acknowledgments -- Lenders to the exhibition -- Illustration credits -- Index.

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