Undercover Surrealism: Georges Bataille and Documents by Ades, Dawn
Undercover Surrealism: Georges Bataille and Documents by Ades, Dawn

Undercover Surrealism: Georges Bataille and Documents

An exploration of the unsettling collisions of art and culture in Georges Bataille's revolutionary journal and a...
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Undercover Surrealism: Georges Bataille and Documents by Ades, Dawn

Undercover Surrealism: Georges Bataille and Documents

$118.78
Undercover Surrealism: Georges Bataille and Documents by Ades, Dawn

Undercover Surrealism: Georges Bataille and Documents

$118.78
Author: Dawn Ades
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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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, Mir , Dal , 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, Dal , Mir , 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



Author: Dawn Ades
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: 08/04/2006
Pages: 272
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 3.06lbs
Size: 10.66h x 8.46w x 0.97d
ISBN: 9780262012300
Audience: Young Adult


Review Citation(s):
Library Journal 09/15/2006 pg. 56

About the Author
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.

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


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