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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... forms ' - the gorilla in relation to the human , for example - jostle their so- called superiors , and in the same way the savage insurrection embodied by Gaulish coins permanently threatens authority . Crucially , ' alterations of ...
... Forms in Nature ) , a selection of his close - up photographs of plants and flowers published in 1928 , were intended to reveal the ' close connection between the form produced by man and that developed by nature . " The introduction by ...
... forms brought together by a painter on a canvas had no repercussion , and for example , since we are speaking of voracity even in the intellectual order – if horrible shadows that collide in the head , if jaws with hideous teeth had not ...
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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 |