Battaille: the bad fairy of Surrealism VISUAL ART

From: The Independent on Sunday | Date: May 14, 2006| Author: Charles Darwent | Copyright information

Undercover Surrealism

Hayward

LONDON

Suggesting you prepare for a visit to the Hayward's exhibition Undercover Surrealism by re-reading Wuthering Heights sounds like a Dadaist joke. Actually, though, it's not such a bad idea. The hero of the show is Georges Bataille, sometime coin expert, pornographic novelist and French philosopher. Bataille's theories, like Nietzsche's, are hard to get a grip on, informe, or formlessness, being part of their method.

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