Max Ernst's Histoire Naturelle: Leaves Never Grow on Trees
London: Arts Council of Great Britain, 1982. Softcover. White writes with bw illusrtations and red and black lettering, 45 pp., bw illustrations throughout. VG (some age wear and smugding on cover, all pages clear and intact). Item #180797
ISBN: 9780728703155
Max Ernst's Histoire Naturelle was published in Paris in 1926. Ernst had begun to use frottage (rubbing) in the arly 19202, in the way he used collage, as a visual equivalent to automatic writing. In this technique he saw a way of minimizing the role of conventional artistic skill. But, despite this self-denial, he contrived a series of images which are intensely personal, hauntingly memorable and which remain one of the notable landmarks of Surrealism." - from the preface.
OCLC: 10100340
Price: $100.00