Magritte Big Art by Marcel Paquet
Part of a series which provides an appreciation of major artists, in this case the Belgian painter Rene Magritte."
Marcel Paquet was born in 1947 in Jumet, Belgium. After obtaining his doctorate in 1978 from the Free University of Brussels with a thesis entitled "La Difference des Pensees de Kant et de Hegel dans la question de l'essence de l'art," he began work on a monumental "Encyclopedie philosophique de la peinture contemporaine." Dividing his time between Brussels and Paris, he has published a number of books on such subjects as Magritte, Paul Delvaux, Botero, and Hans Bellmer.