Magritte

<p>From men in bowler hats, floating in the sky, to a painting of a pipe above the caption "this is not a pipe", <strong>René Magritte (1898–1967)</strong> created an <strong>echo chamber of object and image, name and thing, reality and representation</strong>.<br /><br /> Like other Surrealist works, Magritte’s paintings combine a <strong>precise, mimetic technique </strong>with <strong>abnormal, alienating configurations</strong> which defy the laws of scale, logic, and science: a comb the size of a wardrobe, rocks that float in the sky, clouds that drift through an open door. The result is a direct yet disorientating realm, often witty, often unsettling, and always prompting us to look beyond the visible, to “<strong>what is hidden by what we see.</strong>”<br /><br /> This introductory book explores Magritte's vast repertoire of <strong>visual humor, paradox, and surprise </strong>which to this day makes us look and look again, not only at the painting, but at our sense of self and the world.</p>