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Elizabeth Berkowitz

René Magritte: Selected Writings

Today the Belgian artist René Magritte is most popularly known as a Surrealist painter, but he was never fully embraced by the doctrinaire followers of André Breton’s more dominant Surrealism, nor did he accept Surrealist methodology—its emphasis on psychoanalysis and automatism in particular—as dogma.

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The Brooklyn Rail

SEPT 2023

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