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,                 Dal?, 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

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