I have a bit of fascination for bird people and this illustrated novel Une Semaine De Bonte (1934) by Dada artist Max Ernst contains some of my favourite examples. It is a series of collages that Ernst collected from Victorian encyclopedias, novels, and detective books, reassembled to create a dark and surreal world of dreams and erotic fantasy.
Much of the found imagery used was taken from illustrations by Grandville a century earlier who's depictions of parahuman oddities in Les Métamorphoses du jour (1828–29) was much loved by the surrealists.
There are references to Une Semaine De Bonte in George Franju's surrealist detective film Judex (1963). Thieves use bird masks to disguise their identities at a masked ball and pickpocket the unsuspecting guests during a magic show.
no connection at all, but I do love this cover of the 70's space rock classic Bandolier by Budgie...
