Julian Gardner
Ashgate
Hardback
352
1993
Decoding Magritte proposes aphasia, the defective ability to produce and comprehend language, as the key to an in-depth understanding of Magritte?»s work. Drawing on previously unpublished material, as well as on linguistics and structuralist theory, Silvano Levy sheds new light on the artist?»s paintings, particularly those from the early, experimental period. Levy elegantly maps out the stages of a subversive pictorial deconstruction that provides the key to the ?«Magritte code?».
Ashgate
Hardback
352
1993
Decoding Magritte proposes aphasia, the defective ability to produce and comprehend language, as the key to an in-depth understanding of Magritte?»s work. Drawing on previously unpublished material, as well as on linguistics and structuralist theory, Silvano Levy sheds new light on the artist?»s paintings, particularly those from the early, experimental period. Levy elegantly maps out the stages of a subversive pictorial deconstruction that provides the key to the ?«Magritte code?».