Papier collant et mouches
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Papier collant et mouches[1] (1930, lit. English translation 'sticky paper and flies') is a photo by Jacques-André Boiffard, used to illustrate George Bataille's article "L'esprit moderne et le jeu des transpositions" in Documents, 1930. No.8, p. 488.
It is a close up of the surface of a sticky piece of fly-paper, covered with dead flies.
- " M. Bataille aime les mouches. Nous, non : nous aimons la mitre des anciens évocateurs, la mitre de lin pur à la partie antérieure de laquelle était fixée une lame d’or et sur laquelle les mouches ne se posaient pas, parce qu’on avait fait des ablutions pour les chasser." -André Breton in La Révolution surréaliste n°12_dec 1929
- "Mr. Bataille loves flies. Not we: we love the miters of old evocators, the miters of pure linen to whose front point was affixed a blade of gold and upon which flies did not settle, because they had been purified to keep them away.”, Trans. Richard Seaver and Helen R. Lane.
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