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René Magritte
Belgian surrealist painter, whose Not to be Reproduced and Golconda open and close the essay.
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Two of his paintings frame the essay. Not to be Reproduced shows a man looking into a mirror and seeing the back of his own head, which the essay uses for an identity that refuses to be pinned down; Golconda rains identical bowler-hatted men over the rooftops.
His work is still in copyright: he died in 1967, so the term runs to the end of 2037.
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- GolcondaNot to be Reproduced
- mentions
- You Can't Shame a Fork
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