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Documents - Georges Bataille
Documents was a Surrealist art magazine edited and masterminded by Georges Bataille.
Published in Paris from 1929 through 1930, it ran for 15 issues, each of which
contained a wide range of original writing and photographs. Called "a war
machine against received ideas" by Bataille, Documents brought together a wide
range of contributors, ranging from dissident surrealists including Michel
Leiris, André Masson, and Joan Miró, to Bataille's numismatist colleagues at the National Library's Cabinet of
Coins and Medals. The publication's content was even more wide-ranging,
juxtaposing essays on jazz and archaeology with a photographic series
fetishizing the big toe, an entire issue dedicated to Picasso, and paeans to
the ominous grandeur of the slaughterhouses photographed by Eli Lotar. A
regular section of the magazine called the
Critical Dictionary offered short essays on such subjects as Absolute, Eye, Factory Chimney, and
Buster Keaton.
French | 15 issues
21 × 29,7 cm | 8.00 eur each
21 × 29,7 cm | 8.00 eur each
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