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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... politics that appeared in surrealist publications , it did avoid the racist caricatures common to its mainstream European ... political emancipation . Despite the temptation to contrast DOCUMENTS with surrealist activity , it is the ...
... politics of the time . DOCUMENTS ' ' politics of race ' , if we can call it that , was not a strategy or a policy , but more of an inoculation : an attempt to infect the sterile , complacent body of white European opinion . This is best ...
... politics of representation : as much an attack on the contemporary rhetoric of image - use and games of resemblance as on a bankrupt political system . Over 50 years later , in 1984 , James Clifford brilliantly exposed the affinities ...
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