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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice book in great condition. Pages in excellent condition. No notes or highlighting. See images. Fantastic book.

About the book >.>.> Andr? Breton founder of the Surrealist movement called Ren? Magritte “one of the main pillars of Surrealism.” Yet al- though Magritte was one of the leading figures in this historical movement he did not follow any Surrealist doctrine; he did not paint spontaneous dreamscapes but he did use dream mechanisms such as combi- nation and metamorphosis. Magritte’s work was based on a specific intellectual prem- ise: he sought to articulate in images things that had not yet been said in the artist’s words to paint “what needed painting.” His paintings certainly address the uncon- scious but they are aimed primarily at the intellect and their purpose is not so much to create harmony as to pose questions to irritate to disturb. In this comprehensive and provocative study art historian Jacques Meuris traces the artist’s life and oeuvre including his training at the Brussels Academy of Fine Arts his contact with Cubism Dadaism Italian Futurism and the Belgian Surreal- ists his discovery of de Chirico his ground- breaking one-man show at the Centaur Gal lery in 1997