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A Little Girl Dreams of Taking the Veil by Max Ernst [Paperback] - Picture 2 of 2

Little Girl Dreams of Taking the Veil by Max Ernst (Paperback, 2017)

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The second of the great Surrealist's collage novels, this hallucinatory vision centers on the nightmares of a girl who loses her virginity on the day of her first communion and resolves to become a nun. Max Ernst's profoundly bizarre work, first published in Paris in 1930, blends humor and irony in its unforgettable expression of religious ecstasy and carnal desire.

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In the course of browsing an illustrated book of objects - umbrellas, watches, tools, clothes - artist Max Ernst was struck by the items' unusual juxtapositions. By manipulating the Victorian-era engravings into striking tableaux and adding brief captions, Ernst invented the collage novel and transformed banal advertising art into revealing dramas rooted in his dreams and secret desires. A Little Girl Dreams of Taking the Veil was originally published in 1930 as Reve d'une petite fille qui voulut entrer au Carmel. Its hallucinatory visions center on the nightmares of a girl who loses her virginity on the day of her first communion and resolves to become a nun. Ernst, a pioneer of the Dada movement and Surrealistic art, blends humor and irony in his exploration of the nonrational but very real intersection of religious ecstasy and erotic desire. A century after its debut, this profoundly peculiar book retains its shock value as well as its imaginative power. AUTHOR: A key figure in the Dadaist and Surrealist art movements, German-born Max Ernst (1891 1976) became an American citizen in 1948 and a French citizen in 1958. Painter, sculptor, graphic artist, and poet, Ernst employed the fragmented logic of collage in this volume and in his landmark collage book, Une semaine de bonte, also published by Dover.