Undercover Surrealism Georges Bataille and Documents

Name: Undercover Surrealism Georges Bataille and Documents
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ISBN: 9780262511971

ISBN-10: 0262511975

ISBN-13: 9780262511971

Edition: 2006

Authors: Dawn Ades, Simon Baker

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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, Dali, Miro, 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…