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Max Ernst : Dada and the dawn of surrealism / William A. Camfield ; with an introductory essay by Werner Spies and a preface by Walter Hopps.

By: Contributor(s): Publication details: Munich : Prestel, c1993.Description: 373 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 31 cmISBN:
  • 379131260X
Other title:
  • Dada and the dawn of surrealism
Subject(s):
Contents:
Preface / Walter Hopps -- An Open-ended Oeuvre / Werner Spies -- 1. Matters of Family, Education, Art, and War -- 2. Expressionist Art and Activism in Postwar Cologne -- 3. The First Dada Season in Cologne -- 4. Dadamax Amid Dissension in Dada, Cologne and Paris -- 5. Ernst and the Dadaists of Paris: Vacations in the Tirol and Collaborations with Eluard -- 6. Ernst and the Litterature Group during "le mouvement flou": Paris, 1922-1923 -- 7. Ruptures and Renewals in 1924 -- 8. Ernst at Surrealism's Dawn: 1925-1927 / Walter Hopps -- Plates.
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Book Book CGLAS Library Monographs Room ERN (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 05838

Catalogue of an exhibition held at Museum of Modern Art, New York, March 14-May 2, 1993; the Menil Collection, Houston, May 28-August 29, 1993; the Art Institute of Chicago, September 15-November 30, 1993.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 353-359)

Preface / Walter Hopps -- An Open-ended Oeuvre / Werner Spies -- 1. Matters of Family, Education, Art, and War -- 2. Expressionist Art and Activism in Postwar Cologne -- 3. The First Dada Season in Cologne -- 4. Dadamax Amid Dissension in Dada, Cologne and Paris -- 5. Ernst and the Dadaists of Paris: Vacations in the Tirol and Collaborations with Eluard -- 6. Ernst and the Litterature Group during "le mouvement flou": Paris, 1922-1923 -- 7. Ruptures and Renewals in 1924 -- 8. Ernst at Surrealism's Dawn: 1925-1927 / Walter Hopps -- Plates.