Undercover Surrealism
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Undercover Surrealism (2006) was an exhibition that ran at the Hayward Gallery from May 11 to July 30 2006. It explored the ’subversive climate’ of the dark undercurrent within Surrealism in the late 1920s spearheaded by Georges Bataille. The exhibition draws together work by Picasso, Miro, Masson, Giacometti as well as imagery from DOCUMENTS, the magazine edited by Georges Bataille from 1929 to 1930.
The exhibition was described as "..a shocking and bizarre juxtaposition of art, ethnography, archaeology and popular culture in such a way that overturned conventional notions of ‘primitive’ and ‘ideal’.
Bataille described himself as Surrealism’s ‘enemy from within’… ," see here.
It features the text text "Doctrines (The Appearance of Things)" by Simon Baker.
See also
- Photo (c. 1930) of Renée Jacobi by Jacques-André Boiffard used on the cover of the book 'Undercover Surrealism'
- Undercover
- Surrealism
- Santa Maria della Concezione dei Cappuccini
Bibliography
- Dawn Adès and Simon Baker, Undercover Surrealism: Georges Bataille and DOCUMENTS. (Cambridge: The MIT Press, 2006).
