Undercover Surrealism: Georges Bataille and DocumentsAn 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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often been presented , retrospectively , through a philosophical lens . Take , for
example , the importance attributed to ' Formless ' , a short text written by Bataille
for the Critical Dictionary section of DOCUMENTS , which it describes as follows
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In the 1997 book Formless : A User ' s Guide , Rosalind Krauss and Yve - Alain
Bois propose a subtle counterpoint to that of ' formless resemblance ' . They too
draw on Bataille ' s ' formless ' but offer an alternative spin on its relationship to
the ...
As an example , Bataille gives us his definition of formless , seen as the epitome
of what eludes classification . Formless ' appears in the Dictionary section of the
final issue of the first year of DOCUMENTS ( the ' Critical Dictionary ' had been a
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Gebruikersrecensie - Not Available - Book VerdictArt historian Ades, the author of several books on Surrealism and Dadaism, and Baker (art history, Univ. of Nottingham), a member of the editorial group of theOxford Art Journal , here tell the story ... Volledige review lezen
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Undercover Surrealism: Georges Bataille and Documents Dawn Ades,Simon Baker,Hayward Gallery Fragmentweergave - 2006 |
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