Magritte: A Life

René Magritte, a middle-class Belgian gent, was a highly unconventional artist who posed profound questions about the relationship between image and reality, challenged the nature of authenticity, and whose influence can be seen in the work of Jasper Johns to Beyoncé. Alex Danchev's biography explores his friendships and artistic development.

Format: Hardback
Length: 480 pages
Publication date: 18 November 2021
Publisher: Profile Books Ltd

René Magritte, a middle-class Belgian artist, is celebrated for his surreal sensibility, deadpan melodrama, and fine-tuned outrageousness, which have become inescapably part of our times. However, his groundbreaking subversions came from a modest house in a Brussels suburb, where his first one-man show sold absolutely nothing. Alex Danchev's biography explores the path of an unconventional artist who posed profound questions about the relationship between image and reality, challenged the very nature of authenticity, and whose influence can be seen in the work of everyone from Jasper Johns to Beyoncé.

René Magritte, a middle-class Belgian artist, is celebrated for his surreal sensibility, deadpan melodrama, and fine-tuned outrageousness, which have become inescapably part of our times. However, his groundbreaking subversions came from a modest house in a Brussels suburb, where his first one-man show sold absolutely nothing. Alex Danchev's biography explores the path of an unconventional artist who posed profound questions about the relationship between image and reality, challenged the very nature of authenticity, and whose influence can be seen in the work of everyone from Jasper Johns to Beyoncé.

Weight: 826g
Dimension: 167 x 243 x 45 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781781250778
Edition number: Main