The Absence of Myth: Writings on Surrealism by Georges Bataille, Michael Richardson

The Absence of Myth: Writings on Surrealism

Georges Bataille, Michael Richardson

224 pages first pub 1994 (editions)

nonfiction art essays philosophy challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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For Bataille, the absence of myth had itself become the myth of the modern age. In a world that had lost the secret of its cohesion, Bataille saw surrealism as both a symptom and a beginning of an attempt to address this loss. His writings on this...

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