Peer reviewedERIC Number: EJ414674
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 1989
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ISSN: ISSN-0022-2224
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Magritte's Captivity in Robbe-Grillet's "La Belle Captive:" The Subjugation of the Image by the Word.
Ortquist, Leslie
Visible Language, v23 n2-3 p238-53 Spr-Sum 1989
Offers Alain Robbe-Grillet's novel "La Belle Captive" (which employs 77 paintings by the Belgian surrealist Rene Magritte) as playful interchange between word and image. Argues that the novel may be understood to demonstrate a fundamental relationship of inequality between word and image. (RS)
Descriptors: Art Criticism, Art History, Art Products, Novels, Painting (Visual Arts), Semiotics, Surrealism
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Evaluative
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Language: English
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