Revolution of the Mind, Surrealist Provocations: MAX ERNST, CELEBES

German artist Max Ernst survived World War 1, but his experiences as an artillery officer filled him with nausea for the high culture that applauded the war. In Ernst's Dada­inspired paintings and collages, like the 1921 Celebes, André Breton, author of the Surrealist Manifesto, caught glimpses of a Surrealist electric spark that could unleash the unconscious and liberate the
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