Surrealist artist Max Ernst defined collage as the "alchemy of the visual image." Students of his work have often dismissed this comment as simply a metaphor for the transformative power of using found images in a new context. Taking a wholly different perspective on Ernst and alchemy; however; M. E. Warlick persuasively demonstrates that the artist had a profound and abiding interest in alchemical philosophy and often used alchemical symbolism in works created throughout his career.A revival of interest in alchemy swept the artistic; psychoanalytic; historical; and scientific circles of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries; and Warlick sets Ernsts work squarely within this movement. Looking at both his art (many of the works she discusses are reproduced in the book) and his writings; she reveals how thoroughly alchemical philosophy and symbolism pervade his early Dadaist experiments; his foundational work in surrealism; and his many collages and paintings of women and landscapes; whose images exemplify the alchemical fusing of opposites. This pioneering research adds an essential key to understanding the multilayered complexity of Ernsts works; as it affirms his standing as one of Germanys most significant artists of the twentieth century.
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