"Examines some of the artist's major paintings whose titles were influenced by and related to works of literature."--Provided by publisher. Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-236) and index.
Contents:
Magritte's painterly language : reading, writing, and art-magic -- Toward Surrealism : Baudelaire and Poe -- Lautréamont and Les chants de Maldoror -- Magritte and Jules Verne : Voyages extraordinaires to the center of art -- Laclos and Les liaisons dangereuses : woman, mirrors, and Robbe-Grillet -- Cladel and The tomb of the wrestlers : roses, daggers, and love in interarts discourse -- The glass key : an interarts dialogue : Magritte and Dashiell Hammett -- Dialectical affinities : Hegel, Sade, and Goethe -- Time transfixed : Bergson, Proust, Einstein, and the fourth dimension -- Magritte and Sheherazade : the enchanted domain.
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