Max Ernst and Alchemy

Max Ernst and Alchemy

Author: M. E. Warlick

Publisher: University of Texas Press

Published: 2013-05-01

Total Pages: 340

ISBN-13: 0292756542

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Surrealist artist Max Ernst defined collage as the "alchemy of the visual image." Students of his work have often dismissed this comment as simply a metaphor for the transformative power of using found images in a new context. Taking a wholly different perspective on Ernst and alchemy, however, M. E. Warlick persuasively demonstrates that the artist had a profound and abiding interest in alchemical philosophy and often used alchemical symbolism in works created throughout his career. A revival of interest in alchemy swept the artistic, psychoanalytic, historical, and scientific circles of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and Warlick sets Ernst's work squarely within this movement. Looking at both his art (many of the works she discusses are reproduced in the book) and his writings, she reveals how thoroughly alchemical philosophy and symbolism pervade his early Dadaist experiments, his foundational work in surrealism, and his many collages and paintings of women and landscapes, whose images exemplify the alchemical fusing of opposites. This pioneering research adds an essential key to understanding the multilayered complexity of Ernst's works, as it affirms his standing as one of Germany's most significant artists of the twentieth century.


Max Ernst

Max Ernst

Author: Max Ernst

Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 321

ISBN-13: 0300107188

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A comprehensive look at the life and work of a pioneering 20th-century artist


Beyond Painting

Beyond Painting

Author: Max Ernst

Publisher:

Published: 2024-09-30

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781840686883

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Alongside Salvador Dalí and André Breton, Max Ernst (1891-1976) remains one of the most famous names to be associated with Surrealism, and must now be regarded as one of the most original, prolific and best-known artists of the 20th century. Assembled in 1947, when Ernst had attained the height of his artistic powers, BEYOND PAINTING is a definitive autobiographical document of the painter and the creative processes behind his work, enhanced by testaments by many of his friends including fellow Surrealists André Breton, Paul Éluard, Roberto Matta and Hans Arp, as well as others such as New York art dealer Julien Levy. BEYOND PAINTING also contains Ernst's revolutionary experiment in collage, The Lion of Belfort, as well as a preface by New York artist Robert Motherwell and a chronology of Ernst's life written by the artist himself.


A week of kindness or the seven deadly elements

A week of kindness or the seven deadly elements

Author: Max Ernst

Publisher: Courier Corporation

Published: 1976-01-01

Total Pages: 228

ISBN-13: 9780486232522

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The great surrealist's collage masterpiece was printed in 1934 in a limited edition of five now-priceless pamphlets. This single-volume edition contains all of the original publication's 182 bizarre, darkly humorous scenes of violent dreams and erotic fantasies. "One of the clandestine classics of our century." — The New York Times.


Homage to Max Ernst

Homage to Max Ernst

Author: Gualtieri Di San Lazzaro

Publisher:

Published: 1971

Total Pages: 138

ISBN-13:

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Well known German, American, English, French and Italian writers and art critics, along with poets and boyhood friends of the painter and poet Max Ernst, have participated enthusiastically in this tribute to one of the greatest artists of our time, an artist whose work appears ;more and more to be the most important results, not so much of Andre Breton's "revolution" as of the Dada-Surrealist group to which Max Ernst belonged early in his career.


Max Ernst

Max Ernst

Author: William A. Camfield

Publisher: Prestel Publishing

Published: 1993

Total Pages: 384

ISBN-13:

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Leven en werk tot 1927 van de Duitse schilder (1891-1976), een van de veelzijdigste kunstenaars uit de eerste helft van de twintigste eeuw.