Boing boing appositely analyzes an retrospective of Magritte’s works at the LA County Museum of Art, with special reference to issues of copyright and fair use. “Magritte and Contemporary Art: The Treachery of Images” explicitly takes up and examines the topic of Magritte’s re-using themes and images — but forbids visitors to take pictures of the exhibition.
Beautiful Theology
Signifying truth in more than words alone
A site for discussing the relation of meaning, images, sounds, and words to theological discourse.
The seminar begins with Magritte’s “Words and Images” at this page. It continues with Scott McCloud’s Understanding Comics on this page.
- Words and Images 8This unit perplexes me somewhat....
- Comics NewsLynn Johnston on “The Making of a Comic...
- Words and Images 7The next frame follows directly ...
- Words and Images 6Here’s one of the frames of this...
- On A Related NoteMy father-in-law, the Rev. Richar...
- Words and Images 5The next image in Magritte’s ess...
- Words and Images 4Here’s the fourth image in Magri...
- Jacobs on TufteJust a note that Alan Jacobs, whose...
- Words and Images 3The third image in Magritte’s gr...
- Words and Images 2The second image in Magritte’s g...
Reading List
René Magritte
“Les Mots et les Images” In La Révolution surréaliste 12 (December 15, 1929): 32-33. Reprinted in Écrits Complets, ed. André Blavier. (Paris: Flammarion, 1979), 60-61.
Scott McCloud
Understanding Comics. Tundra Press, 1993; rep. Harper Perennial.
Edward Tufte
Visual Explanations. Cheshire, Conn.: Graphics Press, 1997.
Other Likely Reading
Alison Bechdel
Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic. Houghton Mifflin, 2006.
Luce Irigaray
Sexes and Genealogies. Columbia UP, 1993.
James Chandler, et al.
Questions of Evidence: Proof, Practice, and Persuasion across the Disciplines. Univ. of Chicago Press, 1994.
Scott McCloud
Reinventing Comics. Harper Paperbacks, 2000.
Making Comics. Harper Paperbacks, 2006.
Edward Tufte
The Visual Display of Quantitative Information. 2nd ed. Cheshire, Conn.: Graphics Press, 2001 (orig. ed. 1983).
Envisioning Information. Cheshire, Conn.: Graphics Press, 1990.
Beautiful Evidence. Cheshire, Conn.: Graphics Press, 2006.
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