A Little Girl Dreams Of Taking The Veil
by Max Ernst /
2017 / English / EPUB
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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.
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
A Little Girl Dreams of Taking the Veil was originally
published in 1930 as
was originally
published in 1930 asRêve d'une petite fille qui voulut
entrer au Carmel.
Rêve 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.
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.