Une Semaine de Bonté

One of the clandestine classics of our century The New York TimesThis is the legendary collage masterpieces of Max Ernst b 1891 , one of the leading figures of the surrealistic movement and among the most original artists of the 20th century From old catalog and pulp novel illustrations, Ernst produced this series of 182 bizarre and darkly humorous collage scenes of classic dreams and erotic fantasies which seem mysteriously to lure the unconscious into view Stern, proper looking women sprout giant sets of wings, serpents appear in the drawing room and bed chamber, a baron has the head of a lion, a parlor floor turns to water on which some people can apparently walk while others drown Une Semaine de Bontis divided into seven parts, one for each day of the week, with each section illustrating one of Ernst s seven deadly elements Oedipus, The Court of the Dragon, and Three Visible Poems are among the startling episodes of Ernst s week The Dada and surrealist epigraphs which introduce each section appear in this edition in both French and English Une Semaine de Bontfirst appeared in 1934 in a series of five pamphlets of fewer than 1,000 copies each, and has never been reprinted before this present edition Previously available only to a few libraries and collectors, this is a major source and great treat for anyone interested in the surrealists and their work, in collage, visual illusion, dream visions, and the interpretations of dreams. Best Download [ Une Semaine de Bonté ] Author [ Max Ernst ] For Kindle ePUB or eBook – kino-fada.fr Very interesting look at surrealistic expression let me with a feeling of disquiet mixed with confusion which is exactly what the images are crafted to do.Max Ernst presents an early graphic novel It s a cross between the Terry Gilliam Monty Python animations, William Burroughs, and that dream you can t quite remember from when you had the flu Highly recommended.A 1934 classic by one of the central figures in surrealism, a collage novel making use of images from Victorian encyclopedias and pulp paintings, pasting images usually animal heads on them and creating some sort of continuity through dreams and erotic fantasies I would have first read it decades ago and found it then strange and wonderful and bizarre, and reading it again, felt similarly, though I may have understood it differently, maybe better.This text now reads to me like a very Freu A 1934 classic by one of the central figures in surrealism, a collage novel making use of images from Victorian encyclopedias and pulp paintings, pasting images usually animal heads on them and creating some sort of continuity through dreams and erotic fantasies I would have first read it decades ago and found it then strange and wonderful and bizarre, and reading it again, felt similarly, though I may have understood it differently, maybe better.This text now reads to...Lion headed men in military garb scribble mysterious edits Victorian women sprouting dragon wings engage in secret trysts Sparrow headed creatures carry off a trussed up young girl A woman falls asleep and soon her room is filled with turbulent waters onlookers pull a series of drowned corpses from the riptide of her dreams Max Ernst seamlessly collaged together these surreal fantasias from 19th century engraved illustrations A sort of cut and paste alchemy Like all graphic novels, the Lion headed men in military garb scribble mysterious edits Victorian women sprouting dragon wings engage in secret trysts Sparrow headed creatures carry off a trussed up young girl A woman falls asleep and soon her room is filled with turbulent waters onlookers pull a series of drowned corpses from the riptide of her dreams Max Ernst seamlessly collaged together these surreal fantasias from 19th century engraved illustrations A sort of cut ...Where are you going ibis headed girls Do not slumber too deeply on these shores where waves lick the very edge of the bed covers, and half seen figures spin stilettos in the articulated anatomical manual rib cages I have a love of Max E...What you d get if Edward Gorey, Nick Bantock, Maxfield Parrish, Botticelli, and M.C Escher met in a frightening dreamworld populated with Victorian women and dragons and tempests And strange French poetry I picked this up at a used book sale, remembering it touted as an early experimental comic, but pant pant I might need to see a psychologist after paging through it.Gotta love the inscriptions found in used books, though J ai tombe dans les pomm...Disturbing, confusing and beautiful This Is the first time that A Week of Kindness as been collected into a single volume, at last The collages are a delight to the eye, Max Ernst is definately at his peak here.Highly recommended.Kind of reminded me of why bellocq s pictures areimportant becaues the women s heads are scratched out It has an external violence to it, a perpetrating subconcious that is instigating an uncalled for violence That s...Bizarre series of collages, divided into sections for each day of the week, with corresponding elements Most sections have some sort of narrative, kinda, if you squint In Understanding Comics Scott McCloud calls it an early experimental ...Un po troppo perso nel suo trip esoterico, per i miei gusti Surrealista surrealista, ma i quadri di Ernst sono pi lisergici Interessante l ultimo romanzo, Una settimana di bont , senza didascalie, dove mostri e chimere affollano stanze borghesi in mezzo a divani e lampadari pomposi.

• English
• 16 December 2018
Max Ernst
• Paperback
• 224 pages
• 0486232522
• Max Ernst
• Une Semaine de Bonté