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Une Semaine De Bonté: A Surrealistic Novel in Collage
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The great surrealist’s collage masterpiece was printed in 1934 in a limited edition of five now-priceless pamphlets. This single-volume edition contains all of the original publication’s 182 bizarre, darkly humorous scenes of violent dreams and erotic fantasies. “One of the clandestine classics of our century.”― The New York Times.
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| Publisher | Dover Publications Inc, 2nd edition (1 Feb. 2000) |
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| Language | English |
| Paperback | 208 pages |
| ISBN-10 | 0486232522 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0486232522 |
| Dimensions | 20.5 x 1.5 x 28 cm |
by Amazon Customer
Arrived quickly and in very good condition. Excellent. Max Ernst was an exceptional Dada and Surreal artist whose work deserves to be much better known. He and his contemporaries prefigured nearly all of the main modern trends in art: collage, film, performance art, photomontage, installation and much more. They questioned the art produced by the society that led to the First World War, reacted against it and created something extraordinary.
by Rossettian
Max Ernst’s infamous “collage novels” were once hard to come by, being saved only for collectors with lots of money to spend, but thankfully one of his 3 novels, Une Semaine de Bonte (A Week of Kindness), has been republished for the general public, courtesy of the kind people at Dover Books. All 182 of the collages are reproduced in very high quality on paper which is thick and nice to the touch. The original title pages have also been reproduced, translated also into English from the French. For the price it’s well worth it.
And the book itself? A tour-de-force of imagination, a must for anyone even slightly interested in the art of collage and Surrealism. Here Max Ernst has seamlessly perfected collage, creating darkly surreal images from 19th century engravings. The lack of text accompanying each collage allows the viewer to create their own storyline to run through each of the 7 sections. Motifs dominate the work: people with the heads of animals, birds, winged ladies, water. The overall atmosphere is Gothic and bizarre, the stuff of dreams itself.
Here’s to hoping that Dover decide to publish Ernst’s 2 other collage novels, La Femme 100 Tetes and A Little Girl Dreams of Taking the Veil.
by Jerold C
Great surrealist collage story… All image. No meaning. A dream!
by C. Simpson
excellent book! surrealist collage at its best!
by Mrs S Newbold
I love Max Ernst and have always wanted a book of his works, when I saw this, I jumped at the chance and I wasn’t disappointed, its shocking, thought provoking and an eye opener.
by MISTER APP
A Week of Kindness is an astonishingly beautiful set of surreal collages created by Max Ernst. This volume is a faithful recreation of the original artworks, which are at once dark and disturbing, lyrical, poignant, whimsical, beautiful, dreamlike, nonsensical and amusing. I cannot speak highly enough about Max Ernst’s work here, the book is too much to be taken in with just one sitting. Incredibly evocative, strange and inspiring. Essential reading for anyone interested in Ernst, Surrealism as a movement in Art, nineteenth century illustration, or collage as a technique.
by RobV
Wildly Interesting from a genius artist
by San
Product was a gift very happy with purchace