A Not So Still Life: A Memoir (INSCRIBED COPY)
by: Ernst, Jimmy

Hardcover. NY, St. Martin's Press, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. INSCRIBED BY ERNST on the half-title. A wonderfully depicted story of life as the son of a world-renowned artist (Max Ernst) and the implications and advantages of that life, i.e. a boyhood filled with relationships with the most renowned artists of this century. Jimmy writes with sensitivity about his often absent father and intertwines it with the happenings of World War II and its impact on his family. An informative and lovingly-told tale. For anyone interested in the art of the 20th century and the Dadaists and Surrealists in particular, this book offers a very unique view of their lives from the perspective of a child born to one of the undisputed masters of art, Max Ernst, during the rise of the Nazis and the war time tribulations of the last century. Jimmy Ernst's point of view is both critical and sympathetic and the book reads like an adventure novel. Related ephemera laid-in.