Maybe it's because I've been writing about Magritte — my April Loose Ends
column is about his and Georges Braque's overlapping concerns and wildly
different visions — but reading Nixon speechwriter Raymond K. Price's 1967 prescription for how to elevate voters» low
opinions of the candidate, all I could think of was Magritte, the ad man, and the insights on representation he brought to his art, as explored in the Menil Collection exhibition Magritte: The Mystery of the Ordinary, 1926 - 1938.