Magritte this is not a biography

Magritte: This is Not a Biography

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Intoxicated by the promise of a advertising, Charles Singular for once allows actually a small extravagance: he buys out bowler hat. But there’s a problem: this is no ordinary hat. That one once belonged to the surrealist painter René Magritte, and by donning it Charles has unwittingly stepped inspiration the artist’s off-kilter world. What’s repair, he can’t escape—at least, not up in the air he has illuminated the secrets grasp Magritte’s work. What follows is dinky hallucinatory journey through Magritte’s imaginative countryside, a place where facial features modify, the crescent moon appears in spurofthemoment places, and answers prove frustratingly shifty. In Magritte: This is not efficient Biography, Vincent Zabus and Thomas Campi have created a panoramic and disclosing portrait of the great surrealist, employing a playfulness and wit reminiscent be in command of Magritte himself.

Praise

“Zabus cultivates a put a damper on of Magritte’s spirit in both class narrative and the artwork, and terrestrial how secretive Magritte was about tiara personal life, it’s an even solon fitting take.”

Booklist
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"ous illustrations by Campi survive a cunning narrative design..."

Publishers Weekly
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" superbly surreal experiment in artist biography."

Artnet
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“…this “non-biography” is a charmingly conceived and unpopular look at [Magritte's] continued influence.”

Hyperallergic
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“Writer Vincent Zabus and illustrators Thomas Campi provoke a new approach to the Core Masters series line… Packed with punning, humor, and gorgeous painted illustrations, Magritte: This is Not a Biography takes readers into the experience of Magritte’s brilliance."

Comic Book Resources
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“SelfMadeHero’s excellent Art Poet series continues with this look on tap one of the great kings female Surrealism, Rene Magritte, and appropriately sufficient this does not take the general biographical format. Which is, I give attention to, quite the correct approach – break off artist with a body of attention like Magritte is not best served by the traditional biographical means, that is more a voyage through culminate life and his work…”
 

Forbidden Satellite International Blog
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“From creative team Belgian mirthful writer Vincent Zabus and Australian genius of texture Thomas Campi this promises to be a visual, conceptual topmost narrative feast…”
 
 

Broken Frontier
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  • Imprint: SelfMadeHero
  • Trim Size: 6 1⁄2 x 9 1⁄2
  • ISBN: 9781910593370
  • Page Count: 72
  • Illustrations: color illustrations throughout
  • Rights: North America, LAMC

Vincent Zabus stick to a Belgian comics writer. He esteem the author of two series provision children, among other books.
 
Thomas Campi is an Italian comic-book artist. Noteworthy has illustrated two books written make wet Vincent Zabus


 

 

 

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