Spies, Werner and Julia Drost — Max Ernst: Retrospective

Ostfildern, Germany, Albertina Vienna / Fondation Beyeler / Hatje Cantz, 2013. Hardcover. color pictorial boards w/ white, black printing. 351 pgs w/ color, bw illustrations. Wonderfully illustrated throughout. ".. This career overview--published to coincide with a major retrospective at the Albertina in Vienna, traveling to the Fondation Beyeler in Riehen/Basel--presents the full wealth of Ernst’s multifaceted oeuvre in a selection of more than 150 paintings, drawings, collages and sculptures, alongside illustrated books and other documents. With more than 250 color reproductions, the catalogue also makes visible and explicates Ernst’s working processes, as he seems effortlessly to combine references to the past with the political events of his time and a prophetic, visionary view of the future."--Amazon. VG (creasing to spine edges. light bumping & creasing to lower corners. indentation to lower edge of back board) .