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A Little Girl Dreams of Taking the Veil
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ISBN10: 0486814521
ISBN13: 9780486814520
Publisher: Dover Publications
Published: Aug 15 2017
Pages: 176
Weight: 0.85
Height: 0.50 Width: 7.00 Depth: 9.90
Language: English
ISBN13: 9780486814520
Publisher: Dover Publications
Published: Aug 15 2017
Pages: 176
Weight: 0.85
Height: 0.50 Width: 7.00 Depth: 9.90
Language: English
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 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.
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