Undercover Surrealism: Georges Bataille and Documents

Erscheinungsjahr 2006
ISBN: 978-0-262-01230-0
Verlag: Penguin Random House LLC

Buch, Englisch, 272 Seiten, Format (B × H): 215 mm x 271 mm, Gewicht: 1388 g

Reihe: Mit Press

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

Autoren/Hrsg.

Ades, Dawn

Baker, Simon

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstgeschichte Kunstgeschichte: 20./21. Jahrhundert Surrealismus, Abstrakter Expressionismus

Über Autor(innen)

Baker, Simon
Simon Baker is Lecturer in Art History at The University of Nottingham and a
member of the editorial group of the <I>Oxford Art Journal</I>.

Ades, Dawn
Dawn Ades is the author of a number of books on dada, surrealism, and related
topics, including <I>Dada and Surrealism Reviewed</I>,
<I>Photomontage</I>, and <I>Salvador Dalí</I>. She is
Director of the Arts and Humanities Research Board Centre for the Study of
Surrealism and its Legacies at the University of Essex.

Dawn Ades is the author of a number of books on dada, surrealism, and
related topics, including Dada and Surrealism Reviewed, Photomontage, and Salvador
Dalí. She is Director of the Arts and Humanities Research Board Centre for the Study
of Surrealism and its Legacies at the University of Essex.