The Hundred Headless Woman
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A familiar nineteenth-century illustration becomes something stranger when its parts no longer belong together. In The Hundred Headless Woman, Max Ernst recombines engravings from Victorian books and magazines into a collage novel first published in Paris in 1929.
Cryptic captions accompany images that suggest impossible encounters and unstable meanings. The recognisable visual language of the source material gives the transformations their force: the world looks orderly enough to trust, until an unexpected combination unsettles it. Reading becomes an active process of making connections, following suggestions and allowing a sequence to remain unresolved.
This 336-page paperback is a work of Surrealist image-making and storytelling, rather than an explanatory survey of Ernst’s career. It will appeal to readers interested in collage, experimental books and the uncanny possibilities hidden within everyday printed material. A rewarding choice for anyone who enjoys looking carefully and finding that an image becomes less certain, rather than more familiar, with time.
Book Details
- Author / contributors: Max Ernst
- Publisher: Dover Publications
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 336
- ISBN: 9780486819112
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