{"id":7441,"date":"2009-09-26T16:46:45","date_gmt":"2009-09-26T23:46:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/?p=7441"},"modified":"2021-09-30T15:49:35","modified_gmt":"2021-09-30T22:49:35","slug":"featured-max-ernst-la-femmme-100-tetes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/archives\/featured-max-ernst-la-femmme-100-tetes\/","title":{"rendered":"FEATURED: MAX ERNST LA FEMMME 100 TETES"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;\"><big>Max Ernst, <\/big><\/span>D\u00e9fais ton sac, mon brave (from: La femme 100 t\u00eates)<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"first3words\">La femme 100 t\u00eates was the first of 3 collage novels designed by Max Ernst.<\/span> Nine chapters \u2018tell\u2019 the story of a woman. Each page contains a single print with a brief subtitle (the legend), so the reader must follow the trail of the illustrations that tell the story. The combinations of scientific instruments and floating figures and\u00a0 landscapes with unexpected interiors define the dream world identified so closely with surrealism.<\/p>\n<p><em>The elements he [Max Ernst] borrows are, above all, elements that have been drawn, and it is the drawing that is most frequently replaced by collage. Here collage becomes a poetic process, perfectly opposable in its aims to the collage of the Cubists, which is primarily realistic in intention. Max Ernst borrows his elements principally from printed drawings, drawings for advertisements, dictionary illustrations, popular images, newspaper photographs. He blends them so skilfully into his pictures that sometimes one hardly suspects their presence\u2026<\/em> &#8211; Louis Aragon, from\u00a0<em>Max Ernst, peintre des illusions<\/em> (1923).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Description:<\/strong> (Hundred Headless Woman) First printing of the second edition. #45 in a limited &amp; hand numbered printing of 1000 copies. Paperback copy, stiff wraps with &#8220;Review copy&#8221; slip laid in. Published in association with George Wittemborn, N.Y. Minor wear to corners and edges, otherwise very good. RARE!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span class=\"sold\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-7529\" title=\"p1060319\" src=\"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/p1060319-215x300.jpg\" alt=\"p1060319\" width=\"215\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/p1060319-215x300.jpg 215w, https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/p1060319-734x1024.jpg 734w, https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/p1060319.jpg 780w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 215px) 100vw, 215px\" \/>SOLD<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong>La femme 100 t\u00eates Avis au lecteur par Andr\u00e9 Breton<\/strong><\/em><br \/>\nErnst, Max<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Publisher:\u00a0<span id=\"biblio-publisher\"><strong>Editions De L&#8217;oeil, Paris<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\nPublication Date:\u00a0<span id=\"biblio-pubdate\"><strong>1956<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\nBinding:\u00a0<span id=\"biblio-binding\"><strong>Paperback<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\nBook Condition:\u00a0<span id=\"biblio-bookcondition\"><strong>Very Good<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\nEdition:\u00a0<span id=\"biblio-edition\"><strong>First Thus<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Max Ernst, D\u00e9fais ton sac, mon brave (from: La femme 100 t\u00eates) La femme 100 t\u00eates was the first of 3 collage novels designed by Max Ernst. Nine chapters \u2018tell\u2019 the story of a woman. Each page contains a single print with a brief subtitle (the legend), so the reader must follow the trail of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[105],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-recently-sold"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7441","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7441"}],"version-history":[{"count":21,"href":"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7441\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15161,"href":"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7441\/revisions\/15161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}