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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... means of contrasting the two distinct approaches to art , archaeology and anthropology advanced by its key protagonists , Georges Bataille and Carl Einstein . The idea of a project along these lines , dauntingly ambi- tious though it ...
... means to resemble nothing ; for the universe to be formless it would have to be something ; all things , even spiders and spit have form and thus resemble other things , and yet the universe cannot . Bataille does not mean that the ...
... means of unadulterated hallucinations , so as to change the hierarchies of values of the real . The hallucina- tory forces will effect a breach in the order of mechanical processes ; they will introduce chunks of ' a - causality ' into ...
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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 |