Why Symbolic Interpretation Matters in Art and Literature

Among my favorite works exhibited in the Scaife Galleries of my hometown Pittsburgh’s Carnegie Museum of Art is a beguiling, enigmatic, and beautiful 1956 painting by René Magritte entitled Le Coeur du Monde—“The Heart of the World.” Completed after Magritte had already established his international reputation as among the most influential and important of Surrealists […]