In the graphic novel Magritte: This is Not a Biography, characters from the Surrealist artist's paintings come to life. Magritte: This is Not a Biography by Vincent Zabus and Thomas Campi (all images ...

This image, of two little boys absolutely spackled with goo, appears on page 11 of Alex Danchev’s new biography, Magritte: A Life, and would not leave my mind until I had turned the final one. It ...

The Surrealists talked a good picture, and René Magritte was more a visual punster than a virtuoso painter. His art, Alex Danchev writes in this thoroughly and gruesomely entertaining biography, is “a ...

René Magritte loved tales of mystery, and the best approach to understanding the iconic artist’s life is as a mystery. So argues an insightful and broad-reaching new biography by the late Alex Danchev ...

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Despite sumptuous illustrations by Campi and a cunning narrative design, this playful entry in the Art Masters series proves a mixed success. When a man named Charles buys and doffs a bowler hat once ...