Une Semaine de Bonte Softcover - 1976 - 2nd Edition
by Ernst, Max
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Details
- Title Une Semaine de Bonte
- Author Ernst, Max
- Binding Softcover
- Edition number 2nd
- Edition Vintage Copy
- Pages 208
- Language ENG
- Publisher Dover Publications, Inc, New York
- Date 1976
- Features Illustrated, Limited Edition
- Bookseller's Inventory # 16284
- ISBN 9780486232522
From the rear cover
One of the clandestine classics of our century.--The New York Times
This is the legendary collage masterpieces of Max Ernst (b. 1891), one of the leading figures of the surrealistic movement and among the most original artists of the 20th century. From old catalog and pulp novel illustrations, Ernst produced this series of 182 bizarre and darkly humorous collage scenes of classic dreams and erotic fantasies which seem mysteriously to lure the unconscious into view: Stern, proper-looking women sprout giant sets of wings, serpents appear in the drawing -room and bed chamber, a baron has the head of a lion, a parlor floor turns to water on which some people can apparently walk while others drown.
Une Semaine De Bont is divided into seven parts, one for each day of the week, with each section illustrating one of Ernst's seven deadly elements. Oedipus, The Court of the Dragon, and Three Visible Poems are among the startling episodes of Ernst's week. The Dada and surrealist epigraphs which introduce each section appear in this edition in both French and English.
Une Semaine De Bont first appeared in 1934 in a series of five pamphlets of fewer than 1,000 copies each, and has never been reprinted before this present edition. Previously available only to a few libraries and collectors, this is a major source and great treat for anyone interested in the surrealists and their work, in collage, visual illusion, dream visions, and the interpretations of dreams.
