'Documents' 1929-1930

• Authors: Szerszen T.
• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

EN

'Documents', founded in 1929 by Georges Wildenstein, was an unusual and perhaps one of the most interesting episodes in the history of the inter-war European avantgarde. The motor forces of the periodical were three extraordinary men: Carl Einstein, Georges Bataille and Michel Leiris. Their project - a combination of science and art, of that which is part of the past and the avantgarde, of the European and the non-European - remained an isolated Nietzschean attempt at 're-evaluating all'. 'Documents' was also, and this is slightly less obvious, an uncommon atlas of images. This emphasis on visual experience brought the project conceived by Bataille and Einstein close to the conceptions launched by Aby Warburg. If the Mnemosyne atlas is a sui generis 'anthropology of the memory of forms' then 'Documents' can be recognised as an 'anthropology of that which is formless'

Keywords

EN

'DOCUMENTS'; BATAILLE GEORGES; EINSTEIN CARL; LEIRIS MICHEL

Discipline

• ARTS_&_ARCHITECTURE: ARTS & ARCHITECTURE

• Publisher: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Sztuki PAN
• Journal: Konteksty - Polska Sztuka Ludowa
• Year: 2007
• Volume: 61
• Issue: 3-4(278-279)
• Pages: 240-249
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Szerszen T.

• T. Szerszen, Instytut Sztuki PAN, ul. Dluga 27/28, 00-950 Warszawa, Poland

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

08PLAAAA05109715