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Undercover Surrealism: Georges Bataille and Documents (Paperback)

by Dawn Ades (Author), Simon Baker (Author)
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  • Paperback: 272 pages
  • Publisher: MIT Press (May 2006)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0262012308
  • ISBN-13: 978-0262012300
  • Product Dimensions: 26.7 x 21.3 x 2.5 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 1,022,861 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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"Surrealism Revolts" accompanies a major Hayward exhibition that draws its inspiration and much of its material from "Documents", the ground breaking surrealist magazine edited by the French thinker Georges Bataille. Its aim is to re-invest some of the best-known modern masterpieces by artists such as Pablo Picasso, Salvador Dali, Joan Miro and Alberto Giacometti with some of the explosive vitality of the cultural and intellectual climate in Paris in the late 1920s. It reflects the visual richness and violent confrontations in "Documents" between art, archaeology, ethnography, film and popular culture. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

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5.0 out of 5 stars intellectual delight, 3 Jul 2006
By K. S. Young "crych" - See all my reviews
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I was lucky enough to recently enjoy the challenge of the exhibition at the Hayward Gallery , to which I took no preconceptions and from which I derived a sense of delight and provocation. The exhibition should be experienced alone. The accompanying catalogue is a sumptuous display of the background to DOCUMENTS and an intellectual explosion of the mind of Georges Bataille. Not an easy one to fathom this , and there is a tendency to look upon the other surrealist icons in a much less tolerant light.

Bataille challenged , provoked , shocked and scandalised. All from a remarkably staid position in the Coin Department ! Look closely at the coins here. They reveal. Also , look closely at the revolting images from the abattoirs and then reconsider Dali and Miro. Genius.

There is much to provoke , entertain , anger , perplex and prompt in this wonderful accompanying book. The feeling I had when emerging from the exhibition was that I had experienced an intellectual challenge. Please note there is a reading room at the end of the exhibition ! Please attempt this - it is truly inspirational.
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