RENE MAGRITTE; THE EMPIRE OF IMAGES
Author: Pierre Sterckx
Hardcover, slipcase; $300 (Canada $450)
7 3/4 x 11"/19,7 x 27,9
250 pages; 160 full color images

USA- Assouline Publishing, the illustrated book publishing house behind such cutting-edge titles as Rena Sindi's Be My Guest; Theme Party Savior Faire, Chef Daniel Boulud: Cooking in New York City; Brooke De Ocampo's Bright Young Things, Lee Radziwill's Happy Times, Oscar De La Renta, The T-Shirt book, Hotel Stories, In The Spirit of the Hamptons, The Allure of Women and The Little Black Dress will release Rene Magritte; The Empire of Images by Pierre Sterckx. Magritte said his sole goal was to think in images and then to combine them. He didn't want his works analyzed and he distrusted any interpretation of them. Yet his most famous paintings confront us with puzzling mysteries and often seem to refer to something secret, which we naturally want to uncover: a giant apple in a room; bells floating in the air; gentlemen in bowler hats raining down; petrified fish; the face of a woman with breasts for eyes and pubic hair for a month. Magritte's intent was to traverse the mysterious evolution that gave rise to these images and their paradoxical associations, in an attempt to describe the reciprocal connections between art and life. This type of critique of Magritte's work has never before been attempted. The author's goal is to in no way reduce our delight in this enigmatic universe, which is, at the same time, also lucid and reflexive. This magnificent volume, in vellum with a cloth slipcase, is a limited edition. Presenting all the major works of this painter, this book is sure to endure as one of the most beautiful ever published on Magritte.

Pierre Sterckx, an art historian and critic, is a lecturer at L'Ecole supérieure des beaux-arts in Paris. He's a contributor to Beaux-Arts Magazine, Art Press and Télérama and in 1996 won the CNRS grand prize for his script for the cd-rom Le Mystere Magritte.

PRESS RELEASE
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IMAGES
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