Misfortunes of the Immortals

'Misfortunes of the Immortals' was Paul Éluard and Max Ernst's second Surrealist collaboration - their first being 'Repetitions', a poetry collection. In 'Misfortunes of the Immortals' the image was no longer relegated to the function of mere illustration; Ernst and Éluard reversed the process, so that instead of starting with a text that needed an illustration, Ernst created collages and Éluard then wrote texts based on the images. The publication of 'Misfortunes of the Immortals' in 1922 ...