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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... late Magdalenian , c.12,500 years old ( cat . 34 ) C Anon , France ( Dordogne , La Madeleine ) , Perforated Baton , late Magdalenian , c.15,000 years old ( cat . 32 ) D Anon , France ( Charente , Roc de Sers ) , Rock with Engraved Bird ...
... late in DOCUMENTS ' lifespan , ' The Modern Spirit and the Play of Transpositions ' ( 8 , 1930 ) , Bataille has been por- trayed as having ' relatively little confidence in art " - but at the beginning of DOCUMENTS Bataille could claim ...
... late Magdalenian , c.15,000 years old Reindeer antler 16 × 4 × 2 Musée des Antiquités Nationales , Saint- Germain - en - Laye , France MAN 8163 Photo : MAN de Saint - Germain 33 Anon , France : Dordogne , La Madeleine Perforated Baton , ...
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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 |