Buy this book on-line McNAB**, ROBERT: : GHOST SHIPS: A Surrealist Love TriangleUSA.[LONDON/NEW HAVEN] YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS,2004. ISBN 0300104316.
USA,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.FINE/FINE.No owner inscrptn,dw/dj unclipped - absence of publisher's price.Bright,crisp,clean,colour+b/w photographic illustrated dw/dj; with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present.Top+fore-edges bright and clean; contents bright,tight and pristine -no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners - an unread copy? Publisher's sharp-cornered,bright,clean,original plain dark chocolate brown cloth boards with bright,crisp, blocked white ink letters to spine/backstrip,red +khaki headband,and immaculate khaki+brown map illustrated endpapers.UK,slim 8vo HB,vi-xpp+
1-266pp [paginated] includes ackowledgements, author's note,a preface by Werner Spies,a prologue,11 chapters,and epilogue,profuse contemporary b/w+colour photographs,maps,illus+ diagrams etc.,throughout the text and the book,
bibliographical note,notes to the text and an index.Plus [unpaginated] half-title page,a b/w line illus vignetted title page,a dedication and a contents list/table.
A moving and spectacular tale of love,jealousy, and exotic travel,centring on three significant figures in the Surrealist movement.
Travel and exploration fascinated the Surrealists,who crossed continents marvelling at their diversity.This riveting book retraces one of their most important and exciting voyages, made on the eve of the birth of Surrealism in 1924.
It describes the secret journey made by an extraordinary menage a trois: the painter Max Ernst,Paul Eluard (co-founder of Surrealism with Andre Breton),and Eluard's wife Gala.
Robert McNab unravels the story of Ernst's love affair with Gala,Eluard's disappearance,Ernst and Gala's pursuit of him,their meeting in Saigon where the love triangle came apart,and the resulting departure of the Eluards,who left Ernst to explore the jungles of French Indochina alone.The impact of the journey on the work of both men was profound: what Eluard saw of European colonial life turned him into a radical political writer,while the oceans,tropical jungle,and ruins of Angkor Wat had a lasting effect on Ernst's painting and sculpture.As for Gala,she eventually dropped both her lovers for Salvador Dali,breaking Eluard's heart and inspiring Ernst to make more than one hundred furious portraits of her.
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