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Product Identifiers
PublisherThames & Hudson
ISBN-100500976589
ISBN-139780500976586
eBay Product ID (ePID)50865501
Product Key Features
Original LanguageGerman
Book TitleMax Ernst : Life and Work-An Autobiographical Collage
Number of Pages352 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2006
TopicHistory / Modern (Late 19th Century to 1945), Individual Artists / General, General, Artists, Architects, Photographers, European
IllustratorYes
GenreArt, Biography & Autobiography
AuthorWerner Spies
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height1.5 in
Item Weight10.6 Oz
Item Length11.8 in
Item Width9.5 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN2006-295484
Dewey Edition22
Dewey Decimal759.3
SynopsisA penetrating, intimate portrayal of the creative life of an individual artist and of the artistic life of the twentieth century. Throughout his career, Max Ernst created fantastic worlds through images. But it is only when one sees his work in relation to the images of his personal life--his letters, photographs, poetry, and diaries, so brilliantly reproduced on these pages--that one begins to understand his world, a world spent at the epicenter of twentieth-century artistic life. "Max Ernst: Life and Work" draws on an unprecedented collection of source material, much of it published here for the first time, to present a compelling portrait of the artist's life and an intellectual portrait of the period. Edited by Werner Spies, a close friend of Max Ernst and the leading authority on his extraordinarily rich, surreal world, it includes letters and notes by friends and contemporaries that provide insight into the reception of Ernst's oeuvre and shed light on his biography. The vast range of documents includes texts by Hans (Jean) Arp, Andre Breton, Louis Aragon, Paul eluard, Tristan Tzara, Man Ray, Benjamin Peret, Lotte Lenya, Leonora Carrington, and many others. Ernst's life and work were intimately interwoven, and the hundreds of documents here are interspersed with numerous reproductions of his work, all of which recall the variety and richness of the artist's discoveries and innovations. Ernst--dubbed "Dada Max"--played a vital role in the history of Dada and Surrealism in Cologne, Zurich, and Paris, and shaped the face of the New York art scene during his exile there. 615 illustrations, 154 in color., Presenting a portrait of Max Ernst's life and an intellectual portrait of an entire period, these letters and notes by friends and contemporaries provide an insight into the reception of his oeuvre, illustrating Ernst's own texts and shedding light on his biography.
LC Classification NumberND588.E75
