{"id":20598,"date":"2021-05-19T16:41:19","date_gmt":"2021-05-19T15:41:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/?p=20598"},"modified":"2023-04-25T11:35:51","modified_gmt":"2023-04-25T10:35:51","slug":"max-ernst-by-peter-schamoni","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2021\/05\/19\/max-ernst-by-peter-schamoni\/","title":{"rendered":"Max Ernst by Peter Schamoni"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The English version of Peter Schamoni’s feature-length documentary from 1991 has finally reached YouTube<\/a>. I think copyright reasons may have prevented it from doing so in the past in which case the usual caveats apply: if it’s of interest then watch it while you have the opportunity, it may not be there for long. The German version of the film has a longer title, Max Ernst: Mein Vagabundieren\u2014Meine Unruhe<\/em>, which auto-translates to “my vagabonding\u2014<\/em>my restlessness”, a reference to Ernst’s peripatetic life as well as to his artistic wanderings.<\/p>\n

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I mentioned in the previous post my having spent some time last year watching a number of documentaries about Surrealism. This was one of them, and it’s the<\/em> film about Max Ernst. Films about Salvador Dal\u00ed are plentiful but other Surrealist artists are lucky if they receive a single worthwhile appraisal. Peter Schamoni had filmed Ernst in 1966 for a short, Maximiliana oder die widerrechtliche Aus\u00fcbung der Astronomie<\/em><\/a>, so was already sympathetic to the artist’s work. Max Ernst<\/em> resembles one of the BBC’s classic Arena<\/em> documentaries in being a biographical account threaded with documentary material and pictures of significant artworks. Detail is supplied by actors reading from writings by Ernst, Dorothea Tanning and others.<\/p>\n

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There’s a lot of interview footage here, mostly from TV appearances in later life, in which Ernst’s intelligent conversation makes a striking contrast to Dal\u00ed’s bluster and evasions. Schamoni interleaves the historical footage with shots of the various locations of Ernst’s wanderings: the south of France, New York City, California, Arizona, Paris. Several of the Dal\u00ed documentaries note the degree to which the coastal landscape of Cadaqu\u00e9s informed Dal\u00ed’s painting; Schamoni makes a similar comparison between Ernst’s American paintings and the desert landscapes of Arizona. It’s good to see some of the Microbes<\/em><\/a> that he painted while he was there, a series of tiny landscape pictures that books about Ernst don’t always mention, let alone reproduce.<\/p>\n

Previously on { feuilleton }
\n\u2022 The nightingale echo<\/a>
\n\u2022 Max Ernst\u2019s favourites<\/a>
\n\u2022 Viewing View<\/a>
\n\u2022 Max Ernst album covers<\/a>
\n\u2022 Maximiliana oder die widerrechtliche Aus\u00fcbung der Astronomie<\/a>
\n\u2022 Max and Dorothea<\/a>
\n\u2022 Dreams That Money Can Buy<\/a>
\n\u2022 La femme 100 t\u00eates by Eric Duvivier<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The English version of Peter Schamoni’s feature-length documentary from 1991 has finally reached YouTube. I think copyright reasons may have prevented it from doing so in the past in which case the usual caveats apply: if it’s of interest then watch it while you have the opportunity, it may not be there for long. The … Continue reading “Max Ernst by Peter Schamoni”<\/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":"New blog post: Max Ernst by Peter Schamoni","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":[2,7,44,18,19],"tags":[1180,112,6668,87],"class_list":["post-20598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-film","category-painting","category-surrealism","category-television","tag-dorothea-tanning","tag-max-ernst","tag-peter-schamoni","tag-salvador-dali"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-5me","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20598","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=20598"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20598\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}