Max Ernst: A Retrospective (Metropolitan Museum of Art Publications)
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| Rating | : | 4.66 (554 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0300107188 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 319 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-06-16 |
| Language | : | English |
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Discovering Max Ernst Max Ernst was always one of those painters who resided on the periphery of my consciousness, who I never bothered to fully investigate. Probably because I put him, mistakenly, in the same category as Magritte, a painter who I know was important in the annals of art history but didn't reach me on a visceral level. As I am interested in art and artists in general I had . "Good retrospective, and good image quality." according to D. Hincher. This book is the most comprehensive collection of Max Ernst work. Having read the other reviews, I was concerned the print quality would be less than stellar. I find the print quality and color reproduction to be fine. No art book ever captures the full impact of the actual art, and color correction is one of the more problematic aspects of printing. MOMA and the Yale. "A Magnificent Exhibit, but a mediocre Book" according to M. Healey. The exhibit of Ernst's work, which is still running at the Metropolitan Museum is a stunning tribute to an artist whose styles have influenced so many others over the course of the twentieth century. His style shifted and evolved so much over time that it is hard to believe the same artist that painted "Saint Cecilia" also painted "The Kiss" and "The Robing of the Bri
Max Ernst (18911976) was a pivotal figure in the history of twentieth-century art. At the outset of World War II, Ernst fled Germany for the United States, first going to New York and eventually settling in Sedona, Arizona. A leader of the Dada movement in Germany, he later joined the circle of writers and artists gathered in Paris around André Breton, the unofficial founder of the Surrealist movement. It examines his pioneering accomplishments in painting, collage, and sculpture and considers his use of the techniques of frottage, grattage, and decalcomania. Ernst returned to Europe in 1950 and continued to explore Surrealist imagery and methods throughout his life.This important book accompanies the first retrospective exhibition of Ernst’s work held in the United States in thirty years. Al
Werner Spies is an Ernst scholar and art critic.
Secured a place in America by his third wife, gallery owner Peggy Guggenheim, Ernst, working steadily, ended up in Arizona with artist Dorothea Tanning and eventually returned to France. Considered a "scholarly painter," Ernst drew on everything from mythology to Freudian theory to poetry to science. Imaginative, productive, caustically witty, fierce, and enigmatic, Ernst, a master of commanding lines and earthy textures, created an ever--metamorphosing dreamworld in which ferocity and beauty intertwine in a potent vision of life's paradoxes and magic. All rights reserved. From Booklist Innovative painter and collagist Max Ernst (1891-1976) was a driving force behind Dada and surrealism and set the c