Undercover Surrealism

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Georges Bataille and DOCUMENTS

Dawn Ades, Simon Baker, Fiona Bradley , Neil Cox

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MIT Press
04 August 2006

Art & design styles: Surrealism & Dada

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 , Dali, 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, Dali, 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

Contributions by: Fiona Bradley, Neil Cox, Caroline Hancock
Edited by: Dawn Ades, Simon Baker
Imprint: MIT Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 270mm, Width: 213mm, Spine: 27mm
Weight: 1.386kg
ISBN: 9780262012300
ISBN 10: 0262012308
Pages: 272
Publication Date: 04 August 2006
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Dawn Ades is the author of a number of books on dada, surrealism, and related topics, including Dada and Surrealism Reviewed, Photomontage, and Salvador Dali. 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.