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Max Ernst

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Max Ernst: Sculptures
CHARTA

Paperback, 9.5 x 11 in. / 228 pgs / 26 color / 71 bw / 41 duotone. | 9/2/1996 | Not available
$45.00



Max Ernst: Dream and Revolution
HATJE CANTZ

Hbk, 8.75 x 11.25 in. / 256 pgs / 218 color / 70 bw. | 2/1/2009 | Not available
$60.00



Max Ernst: Retrospective
Max Ernst: Retrospective
HATJE CANTZ

Hbk, 10 x 11.75 in. / 344 pgs / 255 color. | 4/30/2013 | Not available
$75.00



Max Ernst: RetrospectiveMax Ernst: Retrospective

Published by Hatje Cantz.
Text by Raphael Bouvier, Julia Drost, Gisela Fischer, Phillippe-Alain Michaud, Jürgen Pech, Werner Spies, Adrian Sudhalter, Ralph Ubl, Gabriele Wix.

Painter, sculptor, graphic artist and poet Max Ernst was one of the most versatile artists of the modern era. Starting out as a Dadaist in Cologne, Ernst soon became, in Paris, a pioneer not only of Surrealism but also of such techniques as collage (he invented the collage novel), frottage and grattage. Even later, as a perpetual innovator of figures, forms and techniques, Ernst was continually reorienting and revitalizing his art. In the process he created a huge body of work, whose abiding motif was the bird: an alter-ego he named Loplop. Ernst’s ingenuity and inventiveness in handling dream imagery, the sudden breaks that mark the numerous phases of his work and his constant exploration of techniques all conspire to confound summation of his oeuvre. This career overview--published to coincide with a major retrospective at the Albertina in Vienna, traveling to the Fondation Beyeler in Riehen/Basel--presents the full wealth of Ernst’s multifaceted oeuvre in a selection of more than 150 paintings, drawings, collages and sculptures, alongside illustrated books and other documents. With more than 250 color reproductions, the catalogue also makes visible and explicates Ernst’s working processes, as he seems effortlessly to combine references to the past with the political events of his time and a prophetic, visionary view of the future.
Max Ernst (1891–1976) was born near Cologne. While studying at the University of Bonn he became fascinated with the art of mental patients, and through an early friendship with Hans Arp, joined the Dada movement. In 1921 he befriended André Breton, moving to Paris and cofounding Surrealism. With the Nazi invasion of France in 1939, Ernst fled to America with the assistance of Peggy Guggenheim, only returning to France in 1953 with his third wife, Dorothea Tanning. He died in Paris in 1976.

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Hatje Cantz

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Hardcover, 10 x 11.75 in. / 344 pgs / 255 color.

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Catalog: SPRING 2013 p. 81   

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Max Ernst: Dream and RevolutionMax Ernst: Dream and Revolution

Published by Hatje Cantz.
Edited by Kirsten Degel. Text by Werner Spies, Iris Müller-Westermann, Ludger Derenthal.

The relevance of the art of Max Ernst (1891-1976) has boomed again in recent years, as a younger generation of painters takes inspiration from his hallucinated image horde and embraces his example as an artist devoted to self-renewal and the realms of the fantastical. Rock musicians and writers as diverse as Mission of Burma, Thurston Moore and J.G. Ballard have also drawn fruitfully on his achievements. Ernst's German Romantic iconography, reconceived in the Surrealist looking glass, is endlessly suggestive and generative: nighttime forests, caves and cliffs, dead moonlight, spectral faces and figures all populate his scenarios, and his ongoing relevance is further assured by his combination of this iconography with techniques such as collage, frottage, grattage and decalcomania, several of which were his own innovations. Max Ernst: Dream and Revolution assesses the entirety of this unique career.

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Hatje Cantz

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Hardcover, 8.75 x 11.25 in. / 256 pgs / 218 color / 70 bw.

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Catalog: SPRING 2009 p. 105   

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Max Ernst: SculpturesMax Ernst: Sculptures

Published by Charta.
Artwork by Max Ernst. Contributions by Jurgen Pech.

Published in conjunction with an exhibition of Max Ernst's work in Turin, this book includes almost 150 reproductions of his sculptures and collages, from the 1930s on.

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Charta

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Paperback, 9.5 x 11 in. / 228 pgs / 26 color / 71 bw / 41 duotone.

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Catalog: FALL 1996

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ISBN 9788881580705 TRADE
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