The Shock of the NewA beautifully illustrated hundred-year history of modern art, from cubism to pop and avant-guard. More than 250 color photos. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved. |
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Page 71
... Max Ernst . - Some of Ernst's early Dada collages are astonishing revelations of dread , and perhaps none conveys it with more intensity than his Murdering Airplane , 1920 ( plate 38 ) . Hovering above the flat horizon , which is the ...
... Max Ernst . - Some of Ernst's early Dada collages are astonishing revelations of dread , and perhaps none conveys it with more intensity than his Murdering Airplane , 1920 ( plate 38 ) . Hovering above the flat horizon , which is the ...
Page 121
... Max Ernst used to describe how , as a child , he would watch his father painting in the back garden . One day Ernst Senior was stymied by a tree that he could not paint satisfactorily ; so , to the outrage of his son the budding ...
... Max Ernst used to describe how , as a child , he would watch his father painting in the back garden . One day Ernst Senior was stymied by a tree that he could not paint satisfactorily ; so , to the outrage of his son the budding ...
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... Max Ernst began his valediction to Europe , which he finished in America two years later : Europe After the Rain , 1940–2 ( plate 177 ) , a panorama of a fungoid landscape seen as though in the aftermath of an annihilating , biblical ...
... Max Ernst began his valediction to Europe , which he finished in America two years later : Europe After the Rain , 1940–2 ( plate 177 ) , a panorama of a fungoid landscape seen as though in the aftermath of an annihilating , biblical ...
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