Undercover Surrealism: Georges Bataille and Documents

by Dawn Ades and Simon Baker

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 , Dal , 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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262012308
• ISBN13: 9780262012300
• Release Date: August 2006
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 3.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 8.5" x 10.7"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher