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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, 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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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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Paperback. Condition: Fine. 1st. 271 pages, illustrations (some colour); 27 cm. Published on the occasion of the exhibition Undercover Surrealism: Picasso, Miro, Masson and the Vision of Georges Bataille, Hayward Gallery, London, 11 May to 30 July 2006. Firm binding, clean inside copy. *** "Undercover Surrealism is the first major survey of DOCUMENTS, the radical surrealist magazine published in France in 1929 and 1930, and edited by the avant-garde philosopher and novelist Georges Bataille. DOCUMENTS combined an eclectic mixture of art, archaeology, ethnography and popular culture, drawing in many of the greatest writers, poets and artists of the time, including Carl Einstein, Robert Desnos, Pablo Picasso, Joan Miro and Andre Masson. With essays by leading authorities on Bataille and surrealism, and new translations of original articles. Undercover surrealism reflects both the subversive energy and the violent confrontations of imagery and ideas found in DOCUMENTS. It offers fresh insight into the cultural and intellectual climate of Paris in the late 1920s." - Publisher. *** CONTENTS: PREFACE, by Martin Caiger-Smith; LENDERS TO THE EXHIBITION; INTRODUCTION, by Dawn Ades and Fiona Bradley. ESSAYS: DOCTRINES [The Appearance of Things), by Simon Baker; ARCHAEDLOGY, by CFB Miller; BEAUX-ARTS, by Dawn Ades; THE QUESTION OF LAY ETHNOGRAPHY The Anthropological Wild Card, by Denis Hollier; VARIETY [Civilizing Race], by Simon Baker; DICTIONARY PLACES OF PILGRIMAGE, by Dawn Ades; PLACES OF PILGRIMAGE: HOLLYWOOD, by Georges Bataille; A CORPSE, by Simon Baker; COINS AND MEDALS, by Michael Richardson; DICTIONARY, by Michael Richardson; FORMLESS, by Georges Bataille; SALVADOR DALI, by William Jeffett; CRIME, by Simon Baker; SACRIFCE, by Neil Cox; HUMAN SACRIFICES OF CENTRAL AMERICA, by Dawn Ades; ANDRE MASSON, by William Jeffett; MAKING MARKS, by Simon Baker; JOAN MIRO: JOAN MIRO: RECENT PAINTINGS, by Georges Bataille; ETHIOPIA, by Denis Hollier; RHYTHM, by Simon Baker; FORM, by Dawn Ades; JACQUES-ANDRE BOIFFARO, by lan Walker; MADEMOISELLE LOVZESKI, by Simon Baker; ROBIN ALBUM HUMAN RGURES, by Simon Baker; HEADS, by Michael Richardson; THE HUNDRED-HEADLESS WOMAN: MAX ERNST'S HUNDRED-HEADLESS WOMAN, by Robert Desnos; CINEMA, by Michael Richardson; OMELETTES, by Caroline Hancock; PABLO PICASSO, by CFB Miller; HUMORAGE TO PICASSO, by Roger Vitrac; PICASSO, by Michel Leiris; FIRE: FOR PABLO PICASSO, by Jacques Baron; APOCALYPSE, by CFB Mitler; ANGELS, by Simon Baker; TRANSLATIONS: THE ACADEMIC HORSE, by Georges Bataille; THE MODERN SPIRIT AND THE PLAY OF TRANSPOSITIONS, by Georges Bataille; ANDRE MASSON, AN ETHNOLOGICAL STUDY, by Carl Einstein; ALBERTO GIACOMETTI, by Michel Leiris; PICASSO METEOR, by Georges Ribemont-Dessaignes; DICTIONARY; NOTES; CONTENTS OF DOCUMENTS; NOTES ON TRANSLATIONS; EXHIBITION CATALOGUES; LIST OF WORKS; SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY; LIST OF FIGURES, ADDMONAL CREDITS. Size: 4to. Collectible. Seller Inventory # 117517
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