Documents

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Documents
Documents No1 Cover.jpg
description Surrealist magazine
language French
First edition 1929
attitude 1931
Frequency of publication irregular
Editor-in-chief Georges Bataille
editor Georges Bataille,
Georges-Henri Rivière
Article archive Gallica / Bibliothèque nationale
ISSN 1144-1151

Documents , full title Documents: Doctrines, Archeologie, Beaux-Arts, Ethnographie , was a French-language journal of surrealism . It was published from April 1929 to January 1931 with 15 issues by Georges Bataille in Paris . In the artists' magazine for the most part were photo - essays by literary publishes original texts.

history

The magazine was financed by the influential Parisian art dealer and editor of the Gazette des Beaux-Arts Georges Wildenstein (1892–1963), a patron of the Surrealists. Documents recorded a total of eleven members of the editorial team, including Wildenstein, in the fifth edition. Georges Bataille acted as "General Secretary of the publication", was largely responsible for the conception and design and is named in the imprint as editor-in-chief and together with Georges-Henri Rivière as publisher, Michel Leiris is listed as editorial assistant. Other initiators of the magazine were Carl Einstein , Jean Babelon from the coin cabinet of the Paris Bibliothèque Nationale and the textile industrialist and collector Gottlieb Friedrich Reber.

Bataille described the booklet , which was available at 15 francs , as a "war machine against recognized ideas" and sought to bring together a large number of surrealist dissidents who had either broken with André Breton's surrealism or had been expelled from the movement by him. Archaeologists , ethnologists , art historians , visual artists and writers such as Michel Leiris, Georges Limbour , André Masson and Joan Miró have now published their thoughts, texts or works here. The intellectual articles were flanked by photographs, some of which contained bizarre , sometimes macabre subjects, such as the slaughterhouse series by Eli Lotar or the reproductions of his friends' big toes (two male, one female ) juxtaposed with the text Batailles Le gros orteil (The big toe) Toe), photographed by Jacques-André Boiffard (No. 6, 1929) with the comment, “[...] that the foot is therefore surrounded by taboos and the subject of erotic fetishism because it affects people, whose feet are in the mud and whose Head rises to the sky, reminding you that his life is only 'a back and forth from dirt to ideal and from ideal back to dirt' ". Bataille was referring to Le Fétichisme dans l'Amour by the psychologist Alfred Binet .

Overall, the magazine often showed images with a fetishistic - sadomasochistic reference, such as Boiffard's untitled portrait of a woman in a leather mask to Leiris' contribution Le Caput Mortuum ou la Femme de l'Alchimiste (No. 8, 1930) and expanded this into essay-like preparations of religious, magical ones and ritual rites . Bataille's fascination for the abnormal and destructive, which he shared with Hans Bellmer , is shown in the illustration of the multi-armed Hindu goddess Kali as a bloodthirsty monster in Documents in December 1930. With this deeply gloomy one, of fear , brutality , deformation , pain or Aesthetics permeated by death , Bataille deliberately thwarted Breton's view of surrealist art, which he found weak and mendacious.

Although the photographs next to the literary original texts made up the bulk of the magazine were in Documents and works of visual artists such as Hans Arp , Salvador Dalí , Max Ernst , Alberto Giacometti , Paul Klee with an article by Georges Limbour in Volume 1/1929, no. 1, Fernand Léger , Joan Miró and Pablo Picasso presented. The special edition No. 3 from April 1930, for example, was completely dedicated to Picasso through a Hommage à Picasso , for which even the sociologist Marcel Mauss had written an article.

In the last number (No. 15, 1931) Bataille devoted an extensive article to Vincent van Gogh in which he made a connection between the cut off ear and the subject of the sun, “which is present in the painter's work in a form that is now open, now hidden is. "

exhibition

In 2006, the Hayward Gallery in London's Southbank Center showed the exhibition Undercover Surrealism , which was about the work of Georges Bataille and his journal Documents in particular .

literature

  • Documents, année 1929 et 1930, 2 volumes ; Reprint of the documents in two volume volumes, Verlag Jean-Michel Place, Paris 1991, ISBN 2-85893-146-1 . (French)
  • Georges Bataille, Michel Leiris et al .: Critical Dictionary ; ed. and translated by Rainer Maria Kiesow, Merve, Berlin 2005 (= International Merve Discourse 273), ISBN 3-88396-207-4 .
  • Uwe M. Schneede : The art of surrealism: painting, sculpture, poetry, photography, film . CH Beck, Munich 2006, ISBN 3-406-54683-8 . ( Excerpts from Google Books )
  • Uwe Fleckner: Carl Einstein and his century: fragments of an intellectual biography . Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 2006, ISBN 3-05-003863-2 . ( Excerpts from Google Books)
  • Dawn Ades, Simon Baker et al .: Undercover Surrealism - Georges Bataille And Documents . Catalog for the exhibition at the Hayward Gallery, The MIT Press, Cambridge / London 2006, ISBN 0-262-01230-8 . (English)

Web links

Illustrations

  1. ↑ Jacques-André Boiffard: Le Gros Orteil , Documents , 1930, No. 8
  2. ↑ Jacques-André Boiffard: Untitled / Le Caput Mortuum ou la Femme de l'Alchimiste , Documents , 1930, No. 8

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Uwe M. Schneede: The art of surrealism: painting, sculpture, poetry, photography, film . CH Beck, 2006, p. 222; see. Uwe Fleckner: Carl Einstein and his century: fragments of an intellectual biography . Akademie-Verlag, 2006, p. 331ff
  2. ↑ Michel Leiris: From the Impossible Bataille to the Impossible Documents (1963) . In: Michel Leiris: The Ethnographer's Eye . Ethnological Writings II, ed. And introduction Hans-Jürgen Heinrichs , Syndikat, Frankfurt am Main 1978, ISBN 3-8108-0078-3 , p. 73
  3. ↑ Olivier Chow: Idols / Ordures: Inter-repulsion in Documents' big toes. drain journal, accessed May 1, 2010 .
  4. ↑ Jeremy Biles: Ecce monstrum: Georges Bataille and the sacrifice of form . Fordham University Press, 2007, ISBN 0-8232-2778-2 , p. 225
  5. ↑ Thomas Kain / Mona Meister / Franz-Joachim Verspohl (ed.): Paul Klee in Jena 1924. The lecture . Minerva. Jenaer Schriften zur Kunstgeschichte, Volume 10, Art History Seminar, Jenoptik AG , Druckhaus Gera, Jena 1999, ISBN 3-932081-34-X , p. 287
  6. ↑ On-line Picasso Project. Philadelphia Museum of Art , accessed April 30, 2010 .
  7. ^ Picasso and the Avant-Garde in Paris. (No longer available online.) Prof. Dr. Enrique Mallen, formerly in the original ; Retrieved May 1, 2010 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / picasso.tamu.edu  
  8. ↑ Michel Leiris: From the Impossible Bataille to the Impossible Documents (1963) . In: Michel Leiris: The Ethnographer's Eye . Ethnological Writings II, Frankfurt am Main 1978, p. 75