Correspondences: Rene Magritte's dialogue with art and tradition by Patricia M. Allmer

“…This thesis draws on critical frameworks and thinkers informed by and associated with post-structuralism, notably theories of originality and of dialogism as found in works by Julia Kristeva, Roland Barthes, J. Hillis Miller and Harold Bloom. It will explore the intellectual implications presented by Magritte's images, reading them as pictorial interventions into a discourse of intellectual enquiry and as contributions to an ongoing debate which manifests itself in the form of the dialogue with the writings of Andre Breton, as the key intellectual resource of surrealism with other surrealist texts and theories; with the history and development of painting in modernism and with the metaphysical and ontological implications of representation. …”
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