{"id":14246,"date":"2013-09-02T02:29:11","date_gmt":"2013-09-02T01:29:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/?p=14246"},"modified":"2013-09-02T05:13:19","modified_gmt":"2013-09-02T04:13:19","slug":"max-and-dorothea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2013\/09\/02\/max-and-dorothea\/","title":{"rendered":"Max and Dorothea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/ernst1-big.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"ernst1.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/ernst1.jpg\" \/><br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\n<em>Photo by Arnold Newman (1942).<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I love this photo of Max Ernst by Arnold Newman, one of several pictures of the artist together with Dorothea Tanning in <em>Max Ernst: A Retrospective<\/em>, a catalogue for a 1975 Guggenheim Museum exhibition at the Internet Archive. The catalogue itself isn&#8217;t so revelatory (and most of the reproductions are monochrome) but it&#8217;s good to see a connection made between Arnold B\u00f6cklin&#8217;s <em>Isle of the Dead<\/em> and Ernst&#8217;s work. It&#8217;s an obvious parallel: all those porous landscapes and &#8220;fishbone forests&#8221; which offer a kind of mutated Symbolism. Browse the book <a href=\"http:\/\/archive.org\/stream\/maxer00erns#page\/n7\/mode\/2up\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a> or download it <a href=\"https:\/\/ia801502.us.archive.org\/21\/items\/maxer00erns\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"ernst2.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/ernst2.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Photo by Henri Cartier-Bresson (1961).<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"ernst3.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/ernst3.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Photo by Frederick Sommer (1946).<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"ernst4.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/ernst4.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>No photographer credited.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"ernst5.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/ernst5.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Photo by Frederick Sommer (1946).<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Previously on { feuilleton }<br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2012\/02\/02\/dorothea-tanning-1910-2012\/\">Dorothea Tanning, 1910\u20132012<\/a><br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2012\/01\/19\/dreams-that-money-can-buy\/\">Dreams That Money Can Buy<\/a><br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2012\/01\/16\/la-femme-100-tetes-by-eric-duvivier\/\">La femme 100 t\u00eates by Eric Duvivier<\/a><br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2011\/10\/29\/a-picture-to-dream-over-the-isle-of-the-dead\/\">A Picture to Dream Over: The Isle of the Dead<\/a><br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2010\/04\/07\/dorothea-tanning-early-designs-for-the-stage\/\">Dorothea Tanning: Early Designs for the Stage<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photo by Arnold Newman (1942). I love this photo of Max Ernst by Arnold Newman, one of several pictures of the artist together with Dorothea Tanning in Max Ernst: A Retrospective, a catalogue for a 1975 Guggenheim Museum exhibition at the Internet Archive. The catalogue itself isn&#8217;t so revelatory (and most of the reproductions are &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2013\/09\/02\/max-and-dorothea\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Max and Dorothea&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2,12,18],"tags":[267,1180,112],"class_list":["post-14246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-photography","category-surrealism","tag-arnold-bocklin","tag-dorothea-tanning","tag-max-ernst"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-3HM","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14246","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14246"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14246\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}