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How a New Reality Dawned on Max Ernst
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`Max Ernst: Dada and
the Dawn of Surrealism'
Running through Nov. 30 Art Institute of Chicago,
Michigan and Adams
Admission: $6.50 for adults; $3.25, students, seniors and children;
Tuesdays are free
(312) 443-3600
Max Ernst (1891-1976) was an alchemist, a magician of sorts, who
was always turning two things into something else. During a career
that spanned more than 60 years, this seminal figure in the early
20th century movements of Dada and Surrealism created one of t...
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How a New Reality Dawned on Max Ernst
Chicago Sun-Times
; `Max Ernst: Dada and the Dawn of Surrealism' Running through Nov. 30 Art Institute of Chicago, Michigan and Adams Admission: $6.50 for adults; $3.25, students, seniors and children; Tuesdays are free (312) 443-3600 Max Ernst (1891-1976) was an alchemist, a magician of sorts, who was always turning
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The importance of being Ernst
The Independent - London
; The car drove through the snow-covered Yorkshire countryside under a midday sky the colour of lead. Eventually we turned off into the former estate of Bretton Hall. The house itself is now a college, but most of the 100 acres that surround it are the home of the Yorkshire Sculpture Park. It was
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 "Chicago Tribune (Chicago, IL)")
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How Ernst separated self from the rest.
Chicago Tribune (Chicago, IL)
; Byline: Michael Kilian You would hardly know the man was German. The versatile and prolific artist Max Ernst (1891-1976), the subject of a just-opened major retrospective exhibition at New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art, was born and raised near Bonn. He served in the German army through much of
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Max Ernst, force of subversionThe master of reinvention in an impeccable display
International Herald Tribune
; Souren Melikian 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
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MAX ERNST
Artforum
; METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART, NEW YORK This first major museum show of Max Ernst to take place in New York in thirty years stakes a grand claim for his importance to twentieth-century art, and to the development of modern painting in particular. "Only Picasso," announces a wall text at the
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Series Returns to Dawn of Max Ernst's Career
Chicago Sun-Times
; German painter Max Ernst used the third person to describe his own career for a 1967 exhibition in Munich. "A painter is lost when he finds himself," he said. "The fact that he has succeeded in not finding himself is what Max Ernst considers his `sole' honor." The start of this influential artist's
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The strange correspondence of Morris Ernst and John Edgar Hoover, 1939-1964.
The Nation
; ... Edgar Hoover. Once in 1941, Ernst had the bright idea of enlisting Vice President Henry Wallace to persuade the New York Daily News to tone down its criticism of the F.B.I. He reminded Hoover that the two had done Wallace a favor. But Hoover didn't like the ...
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 "The Economist (US)")
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Monty Python's ancestor. (Max Ernst, Dada artist, Tate Gallery, London, England)
The Economist (US)
; MOST painters of the 1920s revered Cezanne as the great forefather of modern art, but not Max Ernst. Everybody loves everybody's Cezanne, he complained, but they turn their backs with disgust on the brilliant drawings in pissoirs. In fact, as a new retrospective at the Tate Gallery in London shows,
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Ernst Mayr, 1904-2005 Remembrances and Tribute
Skeptic
; Editor's note: I received the following remembrances of and tribute to Ernst Mayr a couple of days after his death on February 3, 2005, from Frank Sulloway during his expedition retracing Darwin's footsteps in the Galapagos Islands (there are Internet cafs on two of the islands). As a young man
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 "Skeptic (Altadena, CA)")
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Ernst Mayr, 1904-2005 remembrances and tribute.(Biography)
Skeptic (Altadena, CA)
; ERNST MAYR WAS, WITHOUT A doubt, the most important intellectual figure in my life. He was my closest mentor and a towering model for anyone to try to live up to. He was always remarkably generous with his time to younger scholars and scientists. He was well known at the Museum of Comparative
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