Undercover Surrealism Georges Bataille and

"Undercover Surrealism is the first major survey of DOCUMENTS, the radical surrealist magazine published in France in 1929 and 1930, and edited by the avant-garde philosopher and novelist Georges Bataille. DOCUMENTS combined an eclectic mixture of art, archaeology, ethnography and popular culture, drawing in many of the greatest writers, poets and artists of the time."--BOOK JACKET.

Dawn Ades is the author of a number of books on dada, surrealism, and related topics, including Dada and Surrealism Reviewed, Photomontage, and Salvador Dalí. She is Director of the Arts and Humanities Research Board Centre for the Study of Surrealism and its Legacies at the University of Essex.

Simon Baker is Lecturer in Art History at The University of Nottingham and a member of the editorial group of the Oxford Art Journal.

Preface	p. 6
Lenders to the Exhibition	p. 9
Introduction	p. 11
Essays
Doctrines [The Appearance of Things]	p. 34
Archaeology	p. 42
Beaux-Arts	p. 51
The Question of Lay Ethnography [The Entropological Wild Card]	p. 58
Variety [Civilizing 'Race']	p. 65
Dictionary
Places of Pilgrimage	p. 74
Places of Pilgrimage: Hollywod [Translation]
A Corpse	p. 82
Coins and Medals	p. 86
Dictionary	p. 92
Formless [Translation]
Salvador Dali	p. 94
Crime	p. 102
Sacrifice	p. 106
'Human Sacrifices of Central America'
Andre Masson	p. 118
Making Marks	p. 126
Joan Miro	p. 134
Joan Miro: Recent Paintings [Translation]
Ethiopia	p. 140
Rhythm	p. 146
Form	p. 152
Jacques-Andre Boiffard	p. 174
Mademoiselle Lovzeski	p. 182
Robin Album	p. 184
Human Figures	p. 186
Heads	p. 196
The Hundred-Headless Woman	p. 204
Max Ernst's Hundred-Headless Woman [Translation]
Cinema	p. 208
Omelettes	p. 212
Pablo Picasso	p. 214
Humorage to Picasso [Translation]
Picasso [Translation]
Fire: For Pablo Picasso [Translation]
Apocalypse	p. 228
Angels	p. 230
Translations
The Academic Horse	p. 236
The Modern Spirit and the Play of Transpositions	p. 240
Andre Masson, an Ethnological Study	p. 244
Alberto Giacometti	p. 248
Picasso Meteor	p. 252
Dictionary Notes	p. 256
Contents of Documents	p. 257
Notes on Translations, Exhibition Catalogues	p. 260
Selected Bibliography	p. 261
List of Works	p. 262
List of Figures, Additional Credits	p. 271
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