Undercover Surrealism: Georges Bataille and DocumentsIn the Paris art world of the 1920s, Georges Bataille and his journal DOCUMENTS represented a dissident branch of surrealism. Bataille—poet, philosopher, writer, and self-styled "enemy within" surrealism—used DOCUMENTS to put art into violent confrontation with popular culture, ethnography, film, and archaeology. Undercover Surrealism, taking the visual richness of DOCUMENTS as its starting point, recovers the explosive and vital intellectual context of works by Picasso, Dali, Miro, Giacometti, and others in 1920s Paris. Featuring 180 color images and translations of original texts from DOCUMENTS accompanied by essays and shorter descriptive texts, Undercover Surrealism recreates and recontextualizes Bataille's still unsettling approach to culture. Putting Picasso's Three Dancers back into its original context of sex, sacrifice, and violence, for example, then juxtaposing it with images of gang wars, tribal masks, voodoo ritual, Hollywood musicals, and jazz, makes the urgency and excitement of Bataille's radical ideas startlingly vivid to a twenty-first-century reader. Copublished by Hayward Gallery Publishing, London |
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Pagina 87
We know little about Bataille's interest in coins, a subject he appears not to have
pursued after publishing two essays in the journal: 'The Academic Horse' (1,
1929, translated in this book) and 'Base Materialism and Gnosticism' (1, 1930).
We know little about Bataille's interest in coins, a subject he appears not to have
pursued after publishing two essays in the journal: 'The Academic Horse' (1,
1929, translated in this book) and 'Base Materialism and Gnosticism' (1, 1930).
Pagina 237
THE ACADEMIC HORSE Georges Bataille There appears to be nothing in the
history of the animal kingdom, a simple succession of confusing metamorphoses,
to suggest the determinations characteristic of human history: the transformations
...
THE ACADEMIC HORSE Georges Bataille There appears to be nothing in the
history of the animal kingdom, a simple succession of confusing metamorphoses,
to suggest the determinations characteristic of human history: the transformations
...
Pagina 238
The relation between Greek and Gaulish expressions is all the more significant
as it relates to the noble and correctly calculated form of horses, animals rightly
considered to be among the most perfect and academic of forms. There is no ...
The relation between Greek and Gaulish expressions is all the more significant
as it relates to the noble and correctly calculated form of horses, animals rightly
considered to be among the most perfect and academic of forms. There is no ...
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Gebruikersrecensie - Not Available - Book VerdictArt historian Ades, the author of several books on Surrealism and Dadaism, and Baker (art history, Univ. of Nottingham), a member of the editorial group of theOxford Art Journal , here tell the story ... Volledige review lezen
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PREFACE MartinCaigerSmitti | 6 |
DOCTRINES The Appearance of Things Simon Baker | 34 |
ARCHAEOLOGY CFB Miller | 65 |
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Abattoir Academic Horse ADAGP aesthetic animal Anon archaeology artists Atelier Nadar Bataille's Bibliotheque nationale Black Birds Boiffard Breton British Film Institute Carl Einstein Centre de creation Centre Pompidou civilization CNAC/MNAM Dist coins creation industrielle culture Dakar-Djibouti Mission Departement des Monnaies DOCU Duke Ellington Eli Lotar essay Estampes Ethiopia Ethnography exhibition Félix Nadar formless forms French Gallery Georges Bataille Georges Henri Riviere head Hollier Hollywood human illustrations images issue of DOCUMENTS Jacques Jacques-Andre Jean Joan Miro Karl Blossfeldt London magazine Marcel Griaule Mask Masson medailles MENTS Michel Leiris Modern Art Musée Musee national d'art national d'art moderne nationale de France objects Oil on canvas Pablo Picasso painter painting Paris and DACS Paul Nadar Photo photographs Pierre Private collection published reproduced resemblance Robert Desnos sacrifice Salvador Dali Schaeffner sculpture Silver gelatin print Spread from DOCUMENTS Succession Picasso Surrealism surrealist tion translated Woman