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A Little Girl Dreams of Taking the Veil (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780486814520)
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xIn the course of browsing an illustrated book of objects--umbrellas, watches, tools, clothes--artist Max Ernst was struck by the items' unusual juxtapositions. By manipulating the Victorian-era engravings into striking tableaux and adding brief captions, Ernst invented the collage novel and transformed banal advertising art into revealing dramas rooted in his dreams and secret desires.
A Little Girl Dreams of Taking the Veil was originally published in 1930 as R ve d'une petite fille qui voulut entrer au Carmel. Its hallucinatory visions center on the nightmares of a girl who loses her virginity on the day of her first communion and resolves to become a nun. Ernst, a pioneer of the Dada movement and Surrealistic art, blends humor and irony in his exploration of the nonrational but very real intersection of religious ecstasy and erotic desire. A century after its debut, this profoundly peculiar book retains its shock value as well as its imaginative power.
Author: Max Ernst
ISBN-10: 0486814521
ISBN-13: 9780486814520
Publisher: Dover Publications
Language: English
Published: 08/15/2017
Pages: 176
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.85lbs
Size: 9.90h x 7.00w x 0.50d
A Little Girl Dreams of Taking the Veil was originally published in 1930 as R ve d'une petite fille qui voulut entrer au Carmel. Its hallucinatory visions center on the nightmares of a girl who loses her virginity on the day of her first communion and resolves to become a nun. Ernst, a pioneer of the Dada movement and Surrealistic art, blends humor and irony in his exploration of the nonrational but very real intersection of religious ecstasy and erotic desire. A century after its debut, this profoundly peculiar book retains its shock value as well as its imaginative power.
Author: Max Ernst
ISBN-10: 0486814521
ISBN-13: 9780486814520
Publisher: Dover Publications
Language: English
Published: 08/15/2017
Pages: 176
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.85lbs
Size: 9.90h x 7.00w x 0.50d
By Max Ernst
xA key figure in the Dadaist and Surrealist art movements, German-born Max Ernst (1891-1976) became an American citizen in 1948 and a French citizen in 1958. Painter, sculptor, graphic artist, and poet, Ernst employed the fragmented logic of collage in this volume and in his landmark collage book, Une semaine de bonté, also published by Dover.
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