Condemned to Repeat It
A new (to me) René Magritte
René Magritte, "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it."--George Santayana, The Life of Reason, 1905. From the series Great Ideas of Western Man., ca. 1962, gouache and pencil on paper mounted on paperboard, sheet: 13 3⁄8 x 9 1⁄2 in. (34.0 x 24. cm), Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Container Corporation of America, 1984.124.194
I’ve never heard of this piece—let alone seen it—but it came up in researching my inaugural post for this newsletter (link below). I haven’t been able to find out much about it, but it appears to have been commissioned for a brochure for the Container Corporation of America. What the brochure was advertising, I can’t tell you.
Anyone know?
Yesterday’s post:
The View from the Queensboro Bridge
“The city seen from the Queensboro Bridge is always the city seen for the first time, in its first wild promise of all the mystery and the beauty in the world.”