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1 online resource (176 pages) |
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| Summary |
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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Print version record. |
| Subject |
Ernst, Max, 1891-1976. Rêve d'une petite fille qui voulut entrer au Carmel.
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ART / European.
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Electronic books.
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Rêve d'une petite fille qui voulut entrer au Carmel. English
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Print version: Ernst, Max, 1891-1976. Little girl dreams of taking the veil = New York : G. Braziller, c1982. 0807610518 : (DLC)82009700 |
| Standard No. |
9780486823386 |
| ISBN |
9780486823386 |
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