René Magritte

René MagritteRen Magritte: Beyond painting offers a rethinking of Magrittes art from a position informed by contemporary developments in art theory. The book employs a wide range of literary and philosophical cultural theoretical frameworks to analyse Magrittes art. It offers close readings of specific images, paying attention to neglected aspects of Magrittes work, discussing the significance of cabinets of curiosities and encyclopaedias, trompe loeil, framing

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Piercing Time examines the role of photography in documenting urban change by juxtaposing contemporary ‘rephotographs’ taken by the author with images of nineteenth-century Paris taken by Charles Marville

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‘Thomas Keneally’s Career and the Literary Machine’ explains the disparate opinions

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