Undercover Surrealism Georges Bataille and Documents

Name: Undercover Surrealism Georges Bataille and Documents
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ISBN: 9780262012300

ISBN-10: 0262012308

ISBN-13: 9780262012300

Edition: 2006

Authors: Dawn Ades, Simon Baker

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In the Paris art world of the 1920s, Georges Bataille and his journal DOCUMENTSrepresented a dissident branch of surrealism. Bataille--poet, philosopher, writer, and self-styled "enemy within" surrealism--used DOCUMENTSto put art into violent confrontation with popular culture, ethnography, film, and archaeology. Undercover Surrealism, taking the visual richness of DOCUMENTSas its starting point, recovers the explosive and vital intellectual context of works by Picasso, Daliacute;, Miroacute;, Giacometti, and others in 1920s Paris. Featuring 180 color images and translations of original texts from DOCUMENTSaccompanied by essays and shorter descriptive texts, Undercover Surrealismrecreates…

Book details

List price: $41.95
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: MIT Press
Publication date: 8/4/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 272
Size: 9.25" wide x 10.50" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 3.058
Language: English



Preface



Lenders to the Exhibition


Introduction



Essays


Doctrines [The Appearance of Things]



Archaeology



Beaux-Arts



The Question of Lay Ethnography [The Entropological Wild Card]



Variety [Civilizing 'Race']



Dictionary


Places of Pilgrimage



Places of Pilgrimage: Hollywod [Translation]



A Corpse



Coins and Medals



Dictionary



Formless [Translation]



Salvador Dali



Crime



Sacrifice



'Human Sacrifices of Central America'



Andre Masson



Making Marks



Joan Miro


Joan Miro: Recent Paintings [Translation]



Ethiopia



Rhythm



Form



Jacques-Andre Boiffard



Mademoiselle Lovzeski



Robin Album


Human Figures



Heads



The Hundred-Headless Woman


Max Ernst's Hundred-Headless Woman [Translation]



Cinema



Omelettes



Pablo Picasso



Humorage to Picasso [Translation]



Picasso [Translation]



Fire: For Pablo Picasso [Translation]



Apocalypse



Angels



Translations


The Academic Horse



The Modern Spirit and the Play of Transpositions



Andre Masson, an Ethnological Study



Alberto Giacometti



Picasso Meteor



Dictionary Notes


Contents of Documents


Notes on Translations, Exhibition Catalogues


Selected Bibliography


List of Works


List of Figures, Additional Credits