{Man Ray... and Max Ernst}[9th April 1991]

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[A cutting in the ms, which is not reproduced in the ts, from the Times Literary Supplement dated March 8 1991: 14-15, under the section heading ‘ARTS’, headed ‘Loplop and his aviary’ ‘The surrealist visions of Max Ernst and Man Ray’, by David Gascoyne, sub-headed ‘MAN RAY: THE BAZAAR YEARS Barbican Art Gallery, until April 1 MAX ERNST Tate gallery, until April 21’, includes the following text with ms marginal notes:]

‘Similarly, says Evan Maurer in his essay “Images of Dream and Desire”, in Max Ernst: Beyond Surrealism – A retrospective of the artist’s books and prints (1986),

‘Ernst’s repeated references to marriage, sexual union, the joining of terrestrial and celestial entities, violence, death and decay mirror the essential metaphors of alchemical theory, and his three most frequently used animal symbols – the lion, the bird and the dragon,** are associated with many aspects of alchemical procedures.... It was because Ernst recognised the kinship between magic and art that he compared the technique of collage to the alchemical process, calling it “something like the alchemy of the visual image.”’

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*cf VII.[[Redbook7:225A][19900820:1218b]{‘Capricorn’: Max Ernst}[20th August 1990]] 225

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*** – Times Literary Supplement March 8 1991, p14-15

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