Discusses Dali's years in Spain and first years in Paris as a young artist, provides a detailed assessment of his revolutionary work, and shows how the stage was set for his mature artistic personality.
... I must nauseate Dali — is to squeal like a pig before his canvases . For reasons which , out of consideration for him , I put off explaining , * Dali has refused to allow the reproduction of his paintings in 28 THE “ LUGUBRIOUS GAME ”
By turning away from the directly biographical Bataille's postwar works can better confront the assimilations that impose an identity on him . These more ' systematic writings are more systematic considerations of the limits of all ...
Bataille, “The Lugubrious Game.” In Visions of Excess, 28. 20. Bataille, CEuvres completes, vol. 1,253. 21. Cf. Didi-Hubermann, La ressemblace informe ou legal savoir visuel selon Georges Bataille. 22. Bataille, “Formless.
Questions of gender and ethnicity , criticisms of the accepted canon of modern art , and important social and political influences upon the institution of art are interwoven with the discussion of particular works .
In a footnote to “The Lugubrious Game” (1929), Bataille refers to the sequence of enucleation by a razor blade in Luis Buñuel's film An Andalusian Dog (1929) and the horror of emasculation, which he understands to be the central theme ...
"New light on both Dalí's well-known and little-studied works and his work as a response to modernism through a focus on Dalí's identification with the small and the marginal"--
one another, and there would be a danger of allowing Dada to simply become conflated with Surrealism if one failed to ... formerly one of the impresarios of Zurich Dada, could, after all, be seen as equally important to the formation of ...
24 Discussing Walter Benjamin with a friend so interested in the philosopher that she sometimes “ thought she was Walter Benjamin reincarnated , ” Kushner referred to the real Benjamin as the " prior ” Walter.25 The significance of ...
Lupton , Julia Reinhard , and Reinhard , Kenneth , After Oedipus : Shakespeare in Psychoanalysis ( Ithaca : Cornell University Press , 1993 ) . ... Newman , Saul , From Bakunin to Lacan ( Lexington : Lexington Books , 2001 ) .