Max Ernst Here Everything Is Still Floating (Hier ist noch alles in der Schwebe) 1920

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Ernst composed this work from three photomechanical reproductions. The ground is an upended image of an aerial chemical bomb attack that Ernst cut from a book on German military aviation. To it he glued two carefully cut out pictures: a bisected beetle and the cross section of a fish. The menacing pairing of the biological and the technological is an overarching theme in Ernst’s Cologne Dada work. The title of this photomontage was coined by Ernst’s Dada comrade Jean (Hans) Arp.

Gallery label from Max Ernst: Beyond Painting, September 23, 2017-January 1, 2018.
Medium
Cut-and-pasted printed paper and pencil on printed paper on cardstock
Dimensions
6 1/2 x 8 1/4" (16.5 x 21 cm)
Credit
Purchase
Object number
282.1937
Copyright
© 2023 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris
Department
Drawings and Prints

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Tristan Tzara, Paris. Given to him by the artist, 1920 - 1937
The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Purchased from Tristan Tzara, 1937

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