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This book is an imaginative world brought to us by the genius of Max Ernst. No matter if you like surreal art or not you will love the delightful darkness of this collage
Truly amazing work by the Surrealist master. This is a great asset in the illustration library that never gets old to review.
And if it leads you to more of Max Ernst's work, all the better. Highly recommended. Instead, depending on your moods, you'll find multiple meanings. Like a genuine dream, there are constant, tantalizing hints of unfulfilled meaning -- it almost makes sense, but never quite does -- but that's not frustrating in the least. but just open these startling pages of collage & you'll rediscover that it's still just as potent. "Surrealism" is an overused word these days, drained of much of its original power. Both disturbing dream & benign nightmare, the non-narrative accumulates in woozy intensity as you immerse yourself in it, swept away willingly by its ghostly flood of images. or you can simply enjoy the experience itself, without trying to find some rational skeleton behind it all.
the novel isn't meant to be consumed, it's a response to the graphic medium where works are meant to be a facile read. which means you're going to be stuck on a single page wondering what it means and how to make sense of it, but ernst didn't intend that, so diegesis isn't really possible
Second, on original drawings some parts are sticked, and you see that in different shades of paper. Originals have very thin lines and in the book that lines are not so thin, so much detail because of that is lost. Hope that was helpful great drawings of big author, worth the have it, but I saw originals in Vienna and must say that I was bit disappointed when I saw the drawings in the book. I think that they are not to good scanned. And in the book all is on white paper so you cant know which part is collage.
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