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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... essay entitled ' A Negro Film Union - Why Not ? ' , in N. Cunard , op.cit . , p . 207 . 13 The essay ' Doctrines ( The Appearance of Things ) ' , in this book , describes how such deliberate ' mistakes ' came to pass and how they may ...
... essay ' A Macedonian Eldorado : 5th century BC ' ( 2 , 1929 ) , written by Jean Babelon about Macedonian coins ( the only other essay directly con- cerning coins to appear in DOCUMENTS - d'Espezel himself never published anything in the ...
... essay on ' Sacrificial Mutilation and Vincent van Gogh's Severed Ear ' ( 8 , 1930 ) . Here van Gogh's obsessive representations of a blinding sun and of virulent sunflowers express his sensations of abysmal inadequacy in the face of the ...
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