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Silvano Levy is an academic and art critic specialising in surrealism. He has published on Belgian surrealism with studies on René Magritte, E.L.T. Mesens and Paul Nougé. His research on The Surrealist Group in England began with a film on Conroy Maddox and the book ''Conroy Maddox: Surreal Enigmas'' (1995), while a wider interest in the movement led to the publication of ''Surrealism: Surrealist Visuality'' (1997) and ''Surrealism'' (2000). Levy has curated national touring exhibitions of the work of Maddox and Desmond Morris, and has published a monograph on the latter entitled ''Desmond Morris: 50 Years of Surrealism'' (1997), which was followed by the enlarged re-edition ''Desmond Morris: Naked Surrealism'' (1999). Subsequent books on Morris include ''Lines of Thought: The Drawings of Desmond Morris'' (2008) and two volumes (2000 & 2012) of an analytical catalogue raisonné spanning eight decades. Silvano Levy’s monograph on Maddox, ''The Scandalous Eye. The Surrealism of Conroy Maddox'', was published by Liverpool University Press in 2003 and further scholarly studies cover Sheila Legge, Toni del Renzio, André Breton, Dina Lenković, Jean-Martin Charcot and Birmingham surrealism. Dr Levy is editor of ''Surrealist Bulletin'' and has held academic posts at the University of Liverpool, Newcastle Polytechnic, the University of Bath, the University of Hull and Keele University, where he was promoted to Senior Lecturer in French in 1998 and then to Reader in 2005. ==News== ''Decoding Magritte'' • The first analysis that establishes the deep structure of Magritte's work • The first application of aphasia as a model to unlock to Magrittian 'code' • Previously unpublished interviews and photographs of Georgette Magritte, Scutenaire, Hamoir, Mariën and Melly In a groundbreaking analysis, Silvano Levy unravels the hidden structures of Magritte's paintings. Decoding Magritte puts forward the theory that aphasia, the injury-induced inability to produce and comprehend language, is the elusive key to an underlying artistic mechanism. Magritte had often hinted that there was a covert rationale behind his production, but never gave explanations. Drawing on his conversations with the artist's widow and key members of the Belgian surrealist group, Silvano Levy deciphers Magritte's oeuvre in a meticulous study that rests on linguistics and structuralist theory. This investigation first probes Magritte's early career within the avant-garde, Cubism and Dada, and then systematically sets out the artist s pictorial deconstruction of the pictorial schema. The inclusion of previously unavailable source material in the form of photographs and substantial interviews with Georgette Magritte, Louis Scutenaire, Irène Hamoir, Marcel Mariën and George Melly provides valuable primary resources, as well as shedding additional light on the 'Magritte code'. http://www.amazon.co.uk/Decoding-Magritte-Silvano-Levy/dp/1906593957 http://www.amazon.com/Decoding-Magritte-Silvano-Levy/dp/1906593957 https://www.waterstones.com/book/decoding-magritte/silvano-levy/9781906593957 http://www.accdistribution.com/us/store/pv/9781906593957/decoding-magritte/silvano-levy ''Sheila Legge: Phantom of Surrealism'' Sheila Legge made the headlines in the hot summer of 1936 when she paraded in Trafalgar Square as the ‘Surrealist Phantom of Sex Appeal’. The public was perplexed by this elegantly dressed young woman whose head was completely shrouded in red roses. Since then, nothing more has been heard of her and she has remained a mystery for some eight decades. Silvano Levy’s painstaking research has now pieced together the main elements of Sheila’s life and involvement in surrealism. His study establishes the Phantom’s biographical chronology and lineage, as well as offering commentaries on texts and other traces she has left behind. Review (Spanish): http://surrint.blogspot.co.uk/2015_05_01_archive.html http://www.amazon.co.uk/Sheila-Legge-Surrealism-Silvano-Levy/dp/1909769096/ 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Silvano Levy」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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