The Hundred Headless Woman [La Femme 100 Têtes] by Max Ernst

By Max Ernst

Max Ernst's early-twentieth-century collage-novel calls upon the reader to interpret captions and surrealistic illustrations--created from previous photo books and journals--to create a narrative.

Originally released in 1929, this can be the first American 1981 variation from George Brazillers, big apple, with foreword through André Breton, and translated all through through Dorothea Tanning. It's relatively seriously pencil-annotated in elements, yet that merely provides to its clarity for me. It's great to have stuff mentioned that i would another way have overlooked!

Thanks to thelittlestjellyfish for the test. His word: 325 pages, scanned to a hundred sixty five pages within the PDF (leaves have been simply revealed on one aspect - no element scanning within the clean bits).

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All three consist of a differentiated set of double-height rooms of considerable size, a layout that was reminiscent of London’s gentlemen’s clubs of the same period. 53 The coffee rooms are located on the ground floor and along the street, allowing a direct view of the street (Fig. 14). The spaces are shown as relatively sparsely furnished; there are banquettes along walls or piers and small, round tables. Another customary arrangement, used for example by Café Griensteidl, Café Sperl and Adolf Loos’ Café Museum, was that of occupying an Lshaped venue on the corner of two streets.

Specialist café designers have become versatile in creating interiors that offer perfect illusions of age and patina. Nineteenth-century techniques of treating woodwork and glass have been revived, entire rural regions are being ransacked for ‘authentic’ furniture and transported to Amsterdam, Paris or Berlin. Traces of decades are created, and nicotine stain applied from bottles suggests a history of smoke-filled nights of intense café life imagined by a clientele happy to believe the fiction.

Pp. 20 London pub: Assembly Rooms, Kentish Town, London This layout, in fact an efficient machine serving a series of distinct spaces, provided the background for the invention of an extensive catalogue of decorative elements and trimmings, of mahogany woodwork, frosted and engraved glass, brass fittings and ceiling ornaments. Specialist architects, who like their peers designing shops, music halls or popular theatres, operated as skilled commercial designers, could rely on this catalogue of mass-produced parts which only needed to be assembled to achieve the desired effect.

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