Magritte and contemporary art : the treachery of images /
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
Item type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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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.