Rotten Sun
Since its dawn in the writings of Apollinaire, the mythology surrounding Picasso has been a solar system, consistent with Romantic codes of creative genius. Glaring from this literature is Georges Bataille's 1930 text, 'Rotten Sun', which places the artist on the side of the blinding...
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| Published in: | Art history Vol. 34; no. 2; pp. 388 - 411 |
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| Format: | Journal Article |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford, UK
Blackwell Publishing Ltd
01-04-2011
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| Summary: | Since its dawn in the writings of Apollinaire, the mythology surrounding Picasso has been a solar system, consistent with Romantic codes of creative genius. Glaring from this literature is Georges Bataille's 1930 text, 'Rotten Sun', which places the artist on the side of the blinding sun. This essay is an interaction between Documents magazine, the early work of Jacques Derrida, and Anglophone post-structuralism, deconstructing the work of Plato, and staging the limit of idealism. it takes academic discourse and mixed it with 'mythological phantasms', enacting affects that undo the protocols of scholarly writing. The text indicates an early, psychoanalytical phases in Bataille's method of meditation on images. Narrator, reader, artist and viewer thus participate in a general economy of impossible specular identification with the blinding sun. (Author abstract) |
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| Bibliography: | ArticleID:AHIS825 ark:/67375/WNG-V0QQHSZ3-0 istex:96786955E2448E8E155183675A7168B10F72C536 ObjectType-Article-2 SourceType-Scholarly Journals-1 ObjectType-Feature-1 content type line 23 ObjectType-Article-1 ObjectType-Feature-2 |
| ISSN: | 0141-6790 1467-8365 |
| DOI: | 10.1111/j.1467-8365.2011.00825.x |