Little Girl Dreams of Taking the Veil Paperback / softback - 2017
by Max Ernst
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- Paperback
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- Title Little Girl Dreams of Taking the Veil
- Author Max Ernst
- Binding Paperback / softback
- Edition Reprint
- Condition New
- Pages 176
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Dover Publications
- Date 2017-08
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Bilingual, Illustrated
- Bookseller's Inventory # A9780486814520
- ISBN 9780486814520 / 0486814521
- Weight 0.85 lbs (0.39 kg)
- Dimensions 9.9 x 7 x 0.5 in (25.15 x 17.78 x 1.27 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects France, Fiction
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2017289287
- Dewey Decimal Code 709.2
From the rear cover
In 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 Rve 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.
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