Max Ernst, force of subversionThe master of reinvention in an impeccable display

From: International Herald Tribune | Date: April 16, 2005| Author: Souren Melikian | Copyright information


International Herald Tribune

04-16-2005

Future historians may ponder the nihilism that drove 20th-century avant-garde artists to blow up the foundations of Western art. The Cubists decomposed form, the Abstractionists pulverized it, and the Surrealists destroyed visual logic. Among these, Max Ernst represented the most formidable force of subversion that ever swept across the West. In the retrospective on view at the Metropolitan Museum of Art until July 11, Werner Spie...

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