Undercover Surrealism: Georges Bataille and DOCUMENTSMIT Press, 4 aug 2006 - 271 pagina's An exploration of the unsettling collisions of art and culture in Georges Bataille's revolutionary journal and a new consideration of twentieth-century masterpieces by Picasso, Miró, Dalí, and others against the canvas of their renegade times. In 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, Dalí, Miró, 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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... Dakar - Djibouti mission , the departure of which was heralded in the final issues of DOCU- MENTS . Rouch's film can therefore be seen as a direct legacy of DOCUMENTS , and one very much in the spirit of that moment of origin ...
... Dakar - Djibouti Mission in western colonial Africa : do not count on the natives to salvage their past ( that is why the painter Gaston - Louis Roux , one of the artists actively supported by DOCUMENTS , joined the Dakar - Djibouti Mission ) ...
... Dakar- Djibouti Mission , c.1931 32 ( cat . 17 ) C Anon , Marcel Griaule at Addis Ababa , 1933 ( cat . 16 ) L'EIL DE L'ETHNOGRAPHE ( A propos de la Mission Dakar Djibouti ) illustrate his first contribution to DOCUMENTS , the ' Evil Eye ...
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Undercover Surrealism: Georges Bataille and Documents Dawn Ades,Simon Baker Geen voorbeeld beschikbaar - 2006 |