 | René Magritte and the Art of Thinking Subjects: Arts; Humanities; Art & Visual Culture; History; Philosophy; History of Art; Modern Art; Theory of Art; European History; Modern History 1750-1945; Phenomenology; Aesthetics; For René Magritte, painting was a form of thinking. Through paintings of ordinary objects rendered with illusionism, Magritte probed the limits of our perception--what we see and cannot see, the nature of representation--as a philosophical system for presenting ideas, and explored perspective as a method of visual argumentation. This book makes the claim that Magritte's painting is about vision and the act of viewing, of perception itself, and the process of how we see and experience things in the world, including paintings as things. Lisa Lipinski is Assistant Professor of art history at The George Washington University, USA. |
