Max Ernst: Dada and the dawn of surrealism / William A. Camfield; with an introductory essay by Werner Spies and a preface by Walter Hopps
1933, First Edition. Munich New York, NY, USA: Prestel. Near fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong.Ex-library copy. Item #375413
Physical description: 373 pages: illustrations (some color); 31 cm. 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. Subjects:
Ernst, Max 1891-1976; Exhibitions. Ernst, Max 1891-1976. Artists Germany Biography. Surrealism Art.
Price: €75.00