{"product_id":"9781942884231","title":"Rene Magritte: The Fifth Season by Caitlin Haskell","description":"Ren? Magritte (1898-1967) was one of the most intriguing painters associated  with Surrealism, but he did not fully find his voice until after breaking ties with the  movement. This book, the first to look exclusively at Magritte's late career, examines  his most important bodies of work from the 1940s through the 1960s, and shows how  they marked a fundamental shift in painting from Modernism to our own time.         Featuring more than sixty artworks,  Ren? Magritte: The Fifth Season  explores how  Magritte balanced irony and conviction, philosophy and fantasy, to illuminate the gaps  between what we see and what we know. Subjects explored in this volume include  the artist's Renoir period; the p?riode vache, with its Fauvist- and Expressionist-style  paintings that are little known to American audiences; the `hypertrophy of objects'  paintings, a series that plays with the scale of familiar objects; and the enigmatic  Dominion of Light  suite, paintings that suggest the simultaneous experience of day and  night. Together, the works reveal Magritte as an artist acutely attuned to the paradoxes  at work within reality, and an enduring champion of the role of mystery in life and art.\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Hardback","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56313209192821,"sku":"9781942884231","price":28.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781942884231.jpg?v=1762825953","url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/products\/9781942884231","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}