Max Ernst Collages
The Invention of the Surrealist Universe
Werner Spies
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This definitive volume is the most comprehensive study to date of the collage works of the painter Max Ernst. A leader of the Dadaist and Surrealist movements in Cologne, Zurich and Paris, Ernst used collage to transform existing visual material into a rich, fantastic, surreal world.
Werner Spies, a friend of Ernst and a leading authority on his work, has meticulously researched the sources from which Ernst took his raw material – including periodicals, catalogues, newspapers and journals – and examines the techniques he used to create his remarkable images and collage novels.
Spies also assesses Ernst’s vital role in the turbulent and exciting artistic milieu of Europe between the World Wars, bringing to light previously unpublished letters, texts and documentary photographs. Substantial notes, a biography and bibliography, along with over 800 illustrations – many in full colour – make this a fitting tribute to a brilliant and influential painter.
Also of interest:
Dada: Art and Anti-Art
Collage: The Making of Modern Art
Women Artists and the Surrealist Movement |
|  | | | ISBN 0500236216 | | ISBN-13 978-0500236215 | | | | 31.5 x 25.0 cm | | Hardback | | 540pp | | 847 illustrations, 114 in colour | | First published 1991 | | | | £60.00 | | | |  | | | | 
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