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, draftsman, graphic artist, poet, and art theorist, who took endless pleasure in experimentation. His work has massively inspired Surrealist cinema, but also film directors of later years and up to the present.