Magritte and the philosophers.
New impressions| N° d'inventaire | 23421 |
| Format | 14 x 21 |
| Détails | 176 p. |
| Publication | Brussels, 2021 |
| Etat | Nine |
| ISBN | 9782874498749 |
René Magritte's work is very popular, that's for sure. Yet painting theorists sometimes display a certain disdain for it. Bad painting, one dares to say. Everyone judges it as they see fit... but have these critics grasped the intention attached to this work? For a work of thought runs through it. I would go so far as to say that Magritte's work is just that: the exercise of thought in images. In this book, I propose an investigation. Drawing on the painter's sayings and writings, I attempt to rediscover this thought in images. The paintings themselves do not provide access to it: however much one might interpret them, one would still not discover their necessity. So I relate them to philosophical concepts. I show, based on seven studies, that the images created by Magritte are comparable to arguments and that they bear witness, within the work, to a resemblance to the reflection of philosophers such as Plato, Kant, Hegel, Nietzsche, Wittgenstein or Sartre, not to mention Michel Foucault.
Sémir Badir: Holder of a permanent mandate from the Belgian National Fund for Scientific Research and lecturer at the University of Liège, Sémir Badir applies semiological study for the benefit of human sciences, literature and the arts.
René Magritte's work is very popular, that's for sure. Yet painting theorists sometimes display a certain disdain for it. Bad painting, one dares to say. Everyone judges it as they see fit... but have these critics grasped the intention attached to this work? For a work of thought runs through it. I would go so far as to say that Magritte's work is just that: the exercise of thought in images. In this book, I propose an investigation. Drawing on the painter's sayings and writings, I attempt to rediscover this thought in images. The paintings themselves do not provide access to it: however much one might interpret them, one would still not discover their necessity. So I relate them to philosophical concepts. I show, based on seven studies, that the images created by Magritte are comparable to arguments and that they bear witness, within the work, to a resemblance to the reflection of philosophers such as Plato, Kant, Hegel, Nietzsche, Wittgenstein or Sartre, not to mention Michel Foucault.
Sémir Badir: Holder of a permanent mandate from the Belgian National Fund for Scientific Research and lecturer at the University of Liège, Sémir Badir applies semiological study for the benefit of human sciences, literature and the arts.