Max Ernst: Dada and the Dawn of Surrealism

Publication based upon an exhibition organized by the Menil Collection, Houston. This toured to the Museum of Modern Art in NY in 1993, and later to the Art Institute of Chicago. This monograph and the exhibit provides an in-depth and inclusive review of Ernst's work from 1912 to 1927. This period includes his early and important contributions within Expressionism, emphasizes his breakthrough achievements of Dada, and synoptically reviews a select group of crucial works at the inception of Surrealism. By 1927, Ernst had developed the essential innovations of technique and image and the visual vocabulary of subjects and theories that were to sustain virtually all his later work.