|
|
|
 |
Professional Researcher - portal for information professionals
Making the web productive for information professionals
|
|
|
|
|
Encyclopaedia Acephalica: Comprising the Critical Dictionary & Related Texts (Atlas Archive, 3) Books - us
Please link to this page with the following information:
title: us store: Encyclopaedia Acephalica: Comprising the Critical Dictionary & Related Texts (Atlas Archive, 3) Books - buy Encyclopaedia Acephalica: Comprising the Critical Dictionary & Related Texts (Atlas Archive, 3) Books cheap online from our us Encyclopaedia Acephalica: Comprising the Critical Dictionary & Related Texts (Atlas Archive, 3) Books store description: us store: buy Encyclopaedia Acephalica: Comprising the Critical Dictionary & Related Texts (Atlas Archive, 3) Books cheaply online - Find, buy or read Encyclopaedia Acephalica: Comprising the Critical Dictionary & Related Texts (Atlas Archive, 3) Books reviews online from our online us store. keywords: us store, buy Encyclopaedia Acephalica: Comprising the Critical Dictionary & Related Texts (Atlas Archive, 3) Books online cheap. buy our cheapest Encyclopaedia Acephalica: Comprising the Critical Dictionary & Related Texts (Atlas Archive, 3) Books online. Find and read Encyclopaedia Acephalica: Comprising the Critical Dictionary & Related Texts (Atlas Archive, 3) Books reviews Products on this page:
Artists / Manufacturers:
LINK: Here is a sample html link to this page
|
|
| |
|
Books : Encyclopaedia Acephalica: Comprising the Critical Dictionary & Related Texts (Atlas Archive, 3)
|
|
Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 840.91163
EAN: 9780947757878
ISBN: 0947757872
Label: Atlas Press
Manufacturer: Atlas Press
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 173
Publication Date: 1996-01
Publisher: Atlas Press
Studio: Atlas Press
Sales Rank: 885789
|
Average Rating: 
List Price: $24.99Price: $15.03 You Save: $9.96 (40%)
|
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Buy Now!
|
Related Items:
Editorial Review:
Product Description:
The ideas of Georges Bataille (1897-1962) are being increasingly recognised as offering vital insights into the whole areas of human existence, and over the last few years most of his important theoretical and fictional texts have appeared in English. Yet Bataille’s thought is complex, and his books make few concessions to the reader. The first series of texts here, however, were written for a wider audience by Bataille and his friends, in the form of a dictionary, and they provide a witty, poetic and concise introduction to his ideas.
The Critical Dictionary appeared in the magazine edited by Bataille, Documents, the second series of texts, the Da Costa Encyclopédique was published anonymously after the liberation of Paris in 1947 by members of the Acéphale group and writers associated with Surrealists. Both cover the essential concepts of Bataille and his associates: sacred sociology; scatology, death and the erotic; base materialism; the aesthetics of the formless; sacrifice, festival and the politics of the tumult etc: a new description of the limits of being human. Humour, albeit, sardonic, is not absent from these remarkable redefinitions of the most heterogeneous objects or ideas: Camel, Church, Dust, Museum, Spittle, Skyscraper, Threshold, Work — to name but a few.
The Documents group was celebrated for joining together artists, authors, sociologists and ethnologists (among the most important of their time) in a literary and philosophical project. The Acéphale group was more mysterious, even its membership is only vaguely known, and its activities remain secret. The origins of the Da Costa only became known in 1993, the present volume reveals for the first time its principal compilers: Robert Lebel, Isabelle Waldberg and Marcel Duchamp, even so, the identity of the authors of a large part of it remain unknown.
Average Rating:
Rating: -
Designed from cover to back with many diagrams, photos, etc. this is a nice piece of book. It contains writings by Bataille that were published separately in a surrealist type group's periodical which is fantastic when put together here. From A to Z Bataille defines in a dictionary/encyclopedic type style various terms, objects, actions, and in this format really grabs a reader by his perspective and YANKS, turns ya around to see things differently than you could've ever imagined. There's ... Read More
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Buy Now!
Browse for similar items by category:
|
|
All price information is subject to change.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
© Professional Researcher 1999 - 2005 all rights reserved except where stated
Some portions of this site are reproduced under the GNU GPL
Professional Researcher support the use of Open Source Software
You can view details of the software our site uses
Web site design by Dean Marshall
|
|
|
