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Film, Video Max Ernst and Modern Collage

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Title

  • Max Ernst and Modern Collage

Summary

  • In this segment of From the Vault, Emily Moore, Assistant Curator to the Aramont Library, discusses Max Ernst's Paramythes, a series of poems with eight original collages cut from mail-order catalogs, anatomical texts, and magazines. Moore explains how Ernst used both text and image to examine and challenge the traditional relationship between language and meaning in this small but powerful livre d'artiste.

Names

  • Library of Congress
  • Library of Congress. Rare Book Division, sponsoring body

Created / Published

  • Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress, 2022-05-02.

Notes

  • -  Classification: History: America.
  • -  Emily Moore.
  • -  Recorded on 2022-05-02.

Medium

  • 1 online resource

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2024697998

Online Format

  • video
  • image
  • online text

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Chicago citation style:

Library Of Congress, and Sponsoring Body Library Of Congress. Rare Book Division. Max Ernst and Modern Collage. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, -05-02, 2022. Video. https://www.loc.gov/item/2024697998/.

APA citation style:

Library Of Congress & Library Of Congress. Rare Book Division, S. B. (2022) Max Ernst and Modern Collage. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, -05-02. [Video] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2024697998/.

MLA citation style:

Library Of Congress, and Sponsoring Body Library Of Congress. Rare Book Division. Max Ernst and Modern Collage. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, -05-02, 2022. Video. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2024697998/>.