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Rene Magritte The Bather and the window 1925
Rene Magritte The Bather and the window 1925
Rene Magritte The Bather and the window 1925
The artist Rene Magritte
René Magritte was a Belgian surrealist artist. René became well known for creating a number of witty and thought-provoking images. Often depicting ordinary objects in an unusual context, his work is known for challenging observers’ preconditioned perceptions of reality.
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Rene Magritte was born in…
Rene Magritte - The Station and L'Écuyère 1922 HD
Rene #Magritte - The Station and L'Écuyère 1922 HD #art #paintings
Rene Magrite – 1922 The Station and L’Écuyère
The artist Rene Magritte
René Magritte was a Belgian surrealist artist. René became well known for creating a number of witty and thought-provoking images. Often depicting ordinary objects in an unusual context, his work is known for challenging observers’ preconditioned perceptions of reality.
Magritte Rene Early life
Rene Magritte was born in…
Rene Magritte - Landscape 1920 René Magritte first painting
Rene #Magritte - Landscape 1920 Magritte #first painting
first painting of Rene Magritte – Landscape 1920
The artist Rene Magritte
René Magritte was a Belgian surrealist artist. René became well known for creating a number of witty and thought-provoking images. Often depicting ordinary objects in an unusual context, his work is known for challenging observers’ preconditioned perceptions of reality.
Magritte Rene Early life
Rene Magritte was born…
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Book Review: Rediscovery: Science Fiction by Women Volume 2 (1953-1957)
Book Review: Rediscovery: Science Fiction by Women Volume 2 (1953-1957)
Book Review: Rediscovery: Science Fiction by Women Volume 2 (1953-1957) edited by Gideon Marcus
As the introduction by Janice L. Newman points out, women have written science fiction all along. The percentage of them getting published at any given time in the magazines and books waxed and waned, but they were always there. In the period of the 1950s covered in this volume, they averaged about 1…
Schindler’s List(1993)
Behind the Scenes|Oppenheimer(2023)
Rocketman (2019, dir. Dexter Fletcher)
Maestro(dir.Bradley Cooper)
Executive Producer: Steven Spielberg&Martin Scorsese
We wrap up our fall Classics preview with two nonfiction books out in January 2021: a strikingly sensory childhood memoir by a philosopher of the mind and a vital biography of the prophet Muhammad.
Stay tuned for more fall titles from NYRB Poets, New York Review Comics, Notting Hill Editions, and NYRB Kids.
Richard Wollheim, Germs: A Memoir of Childhood
This lyrical memoir from the major British philosopher is an surprising ode to the confusions of childhood. A lonely child, Wollheim’s early days were defined by sense and sensation, and he describes sights and scents with extraordinary power. As the Wall Street Journal put it, he’s “incapable of writing a bad sentence.” Sheila Heti, author of MotherhoodandHow Should a Person Be?, contributes the introduction.
Maxime Rodinson, Muhammad
First published in 1960 and called “essential” by Edward Said, this biography of Muhammad is an undisputed classic of the field. Rodinson, a Marxist historian who specialized in the Islamic world, traces the larger context of the Prophet’s life and calling—emphasizing his humanity all the while.
With the world turned upside down, we could all use something to look forward to—so, for the next few weeks, we’ll be highlighting our new season of books coming in the fall. First up are four new nonfiction titles from our New York Review Books series, all arriving in September: a literary biography of Balzac, a memoir on loss, the autobiography of an artist too long mistaken for a muse, and a collection of entire essays on single sentences.
Peter Brooks, Balzac’s Lives
Balzac’s massive exploration of French society, The Human Comedy, is said to have invented the nineteenth-century novel, if not the nineteenth century itself (according to Oscar Wilde). Here, writer and scholar Peter Brooks examines the man behind the masterpiece in a vivid and searching study that is based on a close examination of his extraordinary characters—from the capitalist Gobseck to the gay criminal mastermind Collin.
Dorothy Gallagher, Stories I Forgot to Tell You
Dorothy Gallagher’s husband, Ben Sonnenberg, the author of Lost Property: Memoirs and Confessions of a Bad Boy (out in June), died over a decade ago after a long battle with multiple sclerosis. In Stories I Forgot to Tell You, she moves between present and past, the smallest moments of life with her husband and her life after him. It’s a quirky and profound portrait of love, of loss, and of two writers sharing a life.
Celia Paul, Self-Portrait
Celia Paul, one of Britain’s greatest painters alive today, lived long in the shadow of the domineering artist Lucian Freud: their decades-long relationship began when she was eighteen and he fifty-five. This intimate, introspective memoir puts her finally at the center of her own story, with poignant reflections on Freud as well as childhood, family, and motherhood, and above all her unyielding dedication to art.
Brian Dillon, Suppose a Sentence
Brian Dillon’s last book, Essayism, was a roaming love letter to literature’s perhaps most indefinable form. In this collection, he offers a series of essays prompted by a single sentence—from Shakespeare to Janet Malcolm, John Ruskin to Joan Didion—exploring style, voice, language, and the subjectivity of reading.
One of my favorite hidden details about the Country Bear Jamboree, is that all of the bears actually have official backstories given by the Imagineers. Most likely written by show writers Al Bertino and Marc Davis, these mini bios were published around the time of the opening of the attraction at Walt Disney World.
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the bell jar - sylvia plath
Michel Faber, author of the beloved Crimson Petal and the White, just published his third and final novel, which is in part a eulogy of his wife, who died in July.
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“I was no more than bones, cloud—I was only rain floating. (…)”—Joanna Klink, from On Diminishment in “The Nightfields”
