Max Ernst: Surrealism, Art and Cinema

An original book on the relationships between art and cinema in the work of Max Ernst.

The volume offers a critical approach to Max Ernst (1891-1976) and his life, seen for the first time through the lens of the Seventh Art. Indeed, the media of cinema and film represent a parallel and ever-present path in the artist's wide-ranging career, which connected many individuals and artistic groups and offered original points of view on seven decades of the twentieth century. Ernst was a painter, sculptor, dra