Brooklyn Rail: Rene Magritte
By
Elizabeth Berkowitz
The Brooklyn Rail
February 01, 2017
Perhaps the greatest virtue of Selected Writings, beyond facilitating English-language access to Magritte’s writings, is its alignment of Magritte with the great polymath artists of 20th-century modernism, who bent styles and genres to ideological dictates rather than confine an ideology to a singular aesthetic form.