Max Ernst: Illustrated Books

[Dave Monroe]

Max Ernst: Illustrated Books

The exhibit "Max Ernst: Illustrated Books" showcases "mysterious,
species-bending creatures invented by German surrealist Max Ernst
(1891–1976) during the 1920s and 1930s." Images such as bird- and
insect-headed women, or a strange machine that seems to be part man,
part crocodile, and part bicycle have been selected from the pages of
nineteen collage novels created by Ernst. On the website visitors see
pages from five or six of these titles, including Rêve d'une petite
fille qui voulut entrer au Carmel (A little girl dreams of taking the
veil), Une semaine de bonté (Kindness Week), and Spectacle metallique
(1930). There are also some examples from Ernst's Histoire naturelle
that the artist created by rubbing a pencil over various textures and
surfaces, producing shapes reminiscent of bamboo, seed balls, rabbit
ears, and bird's claws.

http://www.nga.gov/exhibitions/2008/ernst/index.shtm

http://scout.wisc.edu/Reports/ScoutReport/Current/