Magritte and contemporary art: the treachery of images

René Magritte, Stephanie Barron, Michel Draguet, Sara Cochran, Lynn Zelevansky, Theresa Papanikolas, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Noëllie Roussel, Fondation Magritte

Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 2006 - Art - 255 pages

Magritte's seminal painting "The Treachery of Images (This Is Not a Pipe)" is a Surrealist and Modernist masterpiece that has become an instantly recognizable pop culture icon. It's also an excellent image with which to begin a serious discussion about the meaning(s) of representation. While many books and exhibitions have undertaken to survey the work of Magritte, and while many have acknowledged his profound impact upon other artists of his generation, none has yet studied the precise connections between Magritte's work and today's top contemporary artists. In The Treachery of Images,the Los Angeles County Museum of Art brings together more than 50 of the most important Magrittes with an equal number of very significant works by contemporary artists, both cool and edgy, including Jasper Johns, Ed Ruscha, Vija Celmins, Joseph Kosuth, Sherrie Levine, Richard Artschwager, Jeff Koons, Martin Kippenberger, Jim Shaw, Raymond Pettibon, Robert Gober and Marcel Broodthaers. Among the distinguished contributors are the internationally renowned art writer Thierry de Duve, co-curator Michel Draguet (director of the Musees Royaux de Bruxelles), critic Pepe Karmel and art historian Dickran Tashjian. Chapters and interviews are devoted to Ruscha, Celmins, Gober and Artschwager, among others.

Contents

• Foreword: 12
• Keys for a Pop Reading of the Work of Magritte: 29
• A Surrealists Reception in America: 43

About the author

Stephanie Barron is Senior Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art and Vice President of Education and Public Programs at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Sheri Bernstein is Exhibition Associate. Ilene Susan Fort is Curator of American Art. Howard N. Fox is Curator of Contemporary Art. Michael Dear is Director of the University of Southern California's Southern California Studies Center and author most recently of "The Postmodern Urban Condition "(2000). Richard Rodriguez is author of "Days of Obligation" (1992) and "Hunger of Memory" (1982), and is a frequent contributor to "Harper's, ""The New York Times, "and "The News Hour" on PBS.

Michel Draguet is professor of modern and contemporary art and director of the center for research on Rene Magritte at the Free University of Brussels. He is a widely published author, most recently of the important monograph James Ensor and Treasures of Art Nouveau: Through the Collections of
Anne-Marie Gilbert.

Mark Blair is the Managing Director of Ogilvy and Mather in Japan. He came to Asia in 1996. As Director of Strategy of the Ogilvy Group in Asia-Pacific, he has been a key player in the development of the theory of 360 Degree brand thinking, bringing coherence and consistency to the application of the new mantra across Ogilvy's many different specialist disciplines.

Richard Armstrong is a Regional Planning Director (Asia Pacific). Richard has been in Asia for five years, and with Ogilvy for three of those. His role has taken him all over the region, developing brand and marketing strategies for multinational and local clients alike, and he has been keenly involved in the implementation of 360 Degree brand communications in all its guises.

Mike Murphy is the CEO Asia-Pacific of New Networks and Chairman of Enterprise IG Asia Pacific. Mike has worked for Ogilvy and Mather for over 24 years and the last 18 in Asia-Pacific. Mike has lived in London, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore. He has run two of Ogilvy's businesses across the world, and has vast experience working with Asian and international clients in every market in Asia Pacific.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Magritte and contemporary art: the treachery of images
• Authors: René Magritte, Stephanie Barron, Michel Draguet, Sara Cochran, Lynn Zelevansky, Theresa Papanikolas, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Noëllie Roussel, Fondation Magritte
• Editors: Stephanie Barron, Michel Draguet
• Contributors: Sara Cochran, Richard Armstrong
• Edition: illustrated
• Publisher: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 2006
• Original from: the University of Michigan
• Digitized: Nov 15, 2007
• ISBN: 9055446211, 9789055446216
• Length: 255 pages
• Subjects: Art / General; Art / History / Contemporary (1945-); Art / History / General; Art / Individual Artists / General; Art / Techniques / Painting