Alfred H. Barr Jr. (ed.): Fantastic Art, Dada, Surrealism (1936)
Filed under catalogue | Tags: · art, dada, surrealism
“The second of a series of exhibitions planned to present … the principal movements of modern art. The first of these, Cubism and Abstract Art, was held at the MoMA in the spring of 1936.”-
Publisher Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1936
248 pages
via MoMA
Second edition, revised and enlarged
Publisher Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1937
294 pages
via MoMA
Publisher (incl. master checklist and press releases)
Ephemera from the exhibition
WorldCat (1st ed.)
WorldCat (2nd ed.)
1st ed.: PDF (43 MB)
2nd ed.: PDF (55 MB)
Jean-Claude Michel: The Black Surrealists (2000)
Filed under book | Tags: · haiti, history of literature, literature, poetry, surrealism
“In their rebellion against Western civilization, the European surrealists contested their own society, of which, black surrealists were subjected to even harsher and shared the same dreadful racial memory of the slaveship. Black surrealists would strive to completely eradicate this hostile society by means of art, words, and metaphors.”
First published as Ecrivains noirs et le surréalisme, Naaman, Sherbrooke/Québec, 1982. Based on author’s 1979 dissertation from University of Michigan.
Publisher Peter Lang, 2000
Francophone Cultures and Literatures series, 29
ISBN 0820442690, 9780820442693
196 pages
Georges Bataille: Blue of Noon (1957–) [FR, EN, ES]
Filed under fiction | Tags: · death, eroticism, fascism, politics, sex, surrealism
“Set against the backdrop of Europe’s slide into fascism, this twentieth-century erotic classic takes the reader on a dark journey through the psyche of the pre-war French intelligentsia, torn between identification with the victims of history and the glamour of its victors. One of Bataille’s overtly political works, it explores the ambiguity of sex as a subversive force, bringing violence, power and death together in a terrifying unity. Written in 1935.”
Publisher Pauvert, Paris, 1957
215 pages
English edition
Translated by Harry Matthews
Publisher Marion Boyars, London, 1979
This edition Paladin Books, 1988
ISBN 0586086242
155 pages
Review: Kirkus (1979).
Commentary: David Fieni (2003).
Le bleu du ciel (French, 1957/1971)
Blue of Noon (English, trans. Harry Matthews, 1979, HTML, PDF)
El azul del cielo (Spanish, n.d.)