A Not-so-still Life: A Memoir
- ISBN-10
- 0312579551
- ISBN-13
- 9780312579555
- Pages
- 272
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1984
- Publisher
- St. Martin's/Marek
- Author
- Jimmy Ernst
Description
The painter son of the great surrealist Max Ernst describes his childhood amid the European avant-garde art world on the eve of World War II and his escape and new life in America
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