Prehistoric Future : Max Ernst and the Return of Painting between the Wars - Ralph Ubl

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Prehistoric Future

Max Ernst and the Return of Painting between the Wars

By: Ralph Ubl, Elizabeth Tucker (Translator)

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Hardcover | 6 November 2013 | Edition Number 1

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260 Pages

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2.34 x 1.86 x 0.24

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One of the most admired artists of the twentieth century, Max Ernst was a proponent of Dada and founder of surrealism, known for his strange, evocative paintings and drawings. In Prehistoric Future, Ralph Ubl approaches Ernst like no one else has, using theories of the unconscious—surrealist automatism, Freudian psychoanalysis, the concept of history as trauma—to examine how Ernst’s construction of collage departs from other modern artists. Ubl shows that while Picasso, Braque, and Man Ray used scissors and glue to create collages, Ernst employed techniques he himself had forged—rubbing and scraping to bring images forth onto a sheet of paper or canvas to simulate how a screen image or memory comes into the mind’s view. In addition, Ernst scoured the past for obsolete scientific illustrations and odd advertisements to illustrate the rapidity with which time passes and to simulate the apprehension generated when rapid flows of knowledge turn living culture into artifact. Ultimately, Ubl reveals, Ernst was interested in the construction and phenomenology of both collective and individual modern history and memory. Shedding new light on Ernst’s working methods and the reasons that his pieces continue to imprint themselves in viewers’ memories, Prehistoric Future is an innovative work of critical writing on a key figure of surrealism.

Industry Reviews

"Prehistoric Future is an ambitious and mature scholarly achievement. No one has ever before plumbed this issue of the non-synchronous character of Ernst's images with such depth, and certainly not with the rigor or probing visual and analytical acuity that Ralph Ubl brings to the task. Rich, illuminating, and brilliant, this book will not only contribute substantially to the discourse on Max Ernst and surrealism, but it is an inspiring and timely demonstration of the insights that can be gained by a probing, tireless, and theoretically informed eye."-- "Charles W. Haxthausen, Williams College"
"[B]rilliant. . . . Ubl's nuanced and persuasive readings address a number of Ernst's most important works. . . . An ambitious and substantially new account of the continued claims of [painting] in a period often presented as the age and wake of its undoing, this study has far-reaching implications not only for the highly active field of surrealism studies but also for the broader history and theory of modernism and the avant-garde."
--Molly Warnock "Critical Inquiry"

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