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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... an “ enemy within ' Surrealism , in opposition to André Breton ' s surrealist
orthodoxy ( The Enemy Within sur - vived as a working title for the exhibition
longer than many ) . The extended period and process of developing the exhibi -
tion has ...
For a writer whose whole corpus has been characterised as militating ' against
architecture ( against system , against the ideal ) , 13 it is unsurprising that
Bataille ' s evident fascination with human origins and evolu - tion often ruptures
those ...
Thus he sweeps away the patronising nostalgia of displays that linked African ,
Oceanic or American sculpture with the distant past of classical antiquity together
with the aesthetic enjoyment of the amateur and the formalist apprecia - tion of ...
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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 |
Undercover Surrealism: Georges Bataille and Documents Dawn Ades,Simon Baker Geen voorbeeld beschikbaar - 2006 |
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