Les Malheurs des Immortels by Paul Eluard and Max Ernst
A landmark of Surrealism and the first genuine collaboration between two of the movement’s most important contributors. Combining Ernst’s images with Eluard’s poetry, the work explores the relation between painting and poetry, ‘the role of the image as an icon of psychic processes and the ambivalent status of the scopic function, or the reversibility of blindness and revelation’.. Second edition (this is number 558 of the run of 1860) in Fine condition, signed by both Eluard and Ernst and intriguingly inscribed by Eluard (in French) ‘To Mr and Mrs Edwin and Sisler, this book, of which I did only a third’, possibly hinting at a third collaborator.
A landmark of Surrealism and the first genuine collaboration between two of the movement’s most important contributors. Combining Ernst’s images with Eluard’s poetry, the work explores the relation between painting and poetry, ‘the role of the image as an icon of psychic processes and the ambivalent status of the scopic function, or the reversibility of blindness and revelation’.. Second edition (this is number 558 of the run of 1860) in Fine condition, signed by both Eluard and Ernst and intriguingly inscribed by Eluard (in French) ‘To Mr and Mrs Edwin and Sisler, this book, of which I did only a third’, possibly hinting at a third collaborator.
A landmark of Surrealism and the first genuine collaboration between two of the movement’s most important contributors. Combining Ernst’s images with Eluard’s poetry, the work explores the relation between painting and poetry, ‘the role of the image as an icon of psychic processes and the ambivalent status of the scopic function, or the reversibility of blindness and revelation’.. Second edition (this is number 558 of the run of 1860) in Fine condition, signed by both Eluard and Ernst and intriguingly inscribed by Eluard (in French) ‘To Mr and Mrs Edwin and Sisler, this book, of which I did only a third’, possibly hinting at a third collaborator.