Using graphic images taken from pulp fiction and magazines this is Max Ernst's legendary collage masterpiece, created by one of the leading figures of the surrealist movement. Featuring 182 bizarre montage scenes of classic dreams, visions, erotic fantasies, bizarre occurences, strange and monstrous juxtapositions. Translating as
A Week of Kindness the sequence is presented in seven sections, each illustrating Ernst's 'seven deadly episodes', featuring among others, 'Oedipus', 'The Court of the Dragon' and 'Three Visible Forms'.
Haunting, strange, comic, heroic and oddly terrifying dream sequences contain man and beast combinations, giants, duels, series of eyes and other body parts, scenes of drama, disaster and bathos.
Illustrations: 206 montage images. Full reprint of the original five pamphlets.
ISBN 10: 0486232522
