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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... death haunting the human condition by contrasting it with the ' soap , toothbrushes and ... pharmaceutical products ' used to keep it at bay . Art too , takes its place in this scheme : ' we enter art galleries as we do the chemists ...
... death , its central figure for all that it is clearly female pinioned like Christ on a crucifix , recipient of the rites of its devotees . Picasso was the most celebrated modern artist of the time , and there was competition to be the ...
... death or decay , flowing blood , skeletons or insects which devour us . Who would take it upon themselves to make such a display in anything other than an entirely rhetorical way ? The relative paucity of interest the illustrations to ...
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Undercover Surrealism: Georges Bataille and DOCUMENTS Dawn Ades,Simon Baker Geen voorbeeld beschikbaar - 2006 |
Undercover Surrealism: Georges Bataille and Documents Dawn Ades,Simon Baker Geen voorbeeld beschikbaar - 2006 |