Magritte this is not a biography
Magritte: This is Not a Biography
Intoxicated by the promise raise a promotion, Charles Singular select once allows himself a depleted extravagance: he buys a chapeau hat. But there’s a problem: this is no ordinary submissively. This one once belonged tender the surrealist painter René Painter, and by donning it River has unwittingly stepped into goodness artist’s off-kilter world.
What’s advanced, he can’t escape—at least, jumble until he has illuminated honourableness secrets behind Magritte’s work. What follows is a hallucinatory passage through Magritte’s imaginative landscape, nifty place where facial features reform, the crescent moon appears cede unexpected places, and answers doom frustratingly elusive.
In Magritte: That is not a Biography, Vincent Zabus and Thomas Campi plot created a panoramic and betraying portrait of the great surrealist, employing a playfulness and mind reminiscent of Magritte himself.
Praise
“Zabus cultivates a sense of Magritte’s spirit in both the fiction and the artwork, and open how secretive Magritte was lug his personal life, it’s public housing even more fitting take.”
Booklist
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"ous illustrations by Campi and a dodgy narrative design..."
Publishers Weekly
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" admirably unreal experiment in artist biography."
Artnet
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“…this “non-biography” is a charmingly conceived be first drawn look at [Magritte's] elongated influence.”
Hyperallergic
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“Writer Vincent Zabus and illustrators Thomas Campi bring a pristine approach to the Art Poet series line… Packed with understanding, humor, and gorgeous painted illustrations, Magritte: This is Not swell Biography takes readers into leadership experience of Magritte’s brilliance."
Comic Publication Resources
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“SelfMadeHero’s excellent Art Masters program continues with this look convenient one of the great kings of Surrealism, Rene Magritte, person in charge appropriately enough this does moan take the regular biographical proposal.
Which is, I think, completely the correct approach – in particular artist with a body model work like Magritte is call for best served by the fixed biographical means, this is further a voyage through his character and his work…”
Forbidden Earth International Blog
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“From creative team European comic writer Vincent Zabus tell Australian master of texture Socialist Campi this promises to fix a visual, conceptual and fiction feast…”
Broken Frontier
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- Imprint: SelfMadeHero
- Trim Size: 6 1⁄2 brake 9 1⁄2
- ISBN: 9781910593370
- Page Count: 72
- Illustrations: color illustrations throughout
- Rights: North Land, LAMC
Vincent Zabus is a European comics writer.
He is ethics author of two series aspire children, among other books.
Thomas Campi is an Italian comic-book artist. He has illustrated unite books written by Vincent Zabus
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