Rene Magritte - Words and Images

Originally published in La Revolution Surrealiste in 1929. Found in Conceptual Art by Tony Godfrey, Phaidon.

I don't know how these were originally presented; all that the book says is that the top image is a detail and the words are translated from the French. Given that the words are not only those that appear in the images I would be intrigued to see how they were written, whether printed or handwritten. I wonder how the presentation and scale in comparison to the originals varies; its seems to impossible to tell with the reproduction of these line drawings - information that might help, that you might find in other mediums in unavailable. The lines however, are very fine; it seems likely they have been reduced. Still the meaning is still clear on not dependant on its scale - their simplicity and minimal information makes them more versatile and apt to display in a book. This seems very different from the experience of viewing a painting, for example, via the mediation of printing.