First edition of these collected writings and visual art by Ernst, produced while living in the artist's colony at Sedona, AZ with fellow artist Dorothea Tanning.
Very good.
Price: $100.00
"It was the beautiful season. It was the time of serpents, earth worms, plume-flowers, scale-flowers, tubular flowers. It was the time when the forest flew away and the flowers struggled under the water. The time of the circumflex Medusa."
Issued as the seventh volume in the series The Documents of Modern Art, under the direction of Robert Motherwell, BEYOND PAINTING presents an assemblage of theoretical, critical, and creative writings by Ernst — historically illuminating and, incidentally, wildly entertaining — along with reproductions of his paintings, collages, and sculptures, and brief texts by André Tristan Tzara, Paul Eluard, and others. "Like every consequential modern painter," Motherwell writes in his preface, "Max Ernst has imposed his madness on the world [...] Max Ernst is one of the few consequential modern paintings whose concern is directly with the external world, with the world of social events and institutions — the Church, political repression, erotic enslavement [...] His art depends on the sense of a vicious past."
New York: Wittenborn, Schultz, Inc, 1948. MAX ERNST: BEYOND PAINTING: And other Writings by the Artist and his Friends 10'' x 7.25''. Original wrappers. Cover and typography by Paul Rand, cover line drawing by Max Ernst. Black and white plates throughout. 204, [2] pages. Light soil and toning to covers, light creasing to spine. "MAX ERNST" in pencil to spine.
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