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The Useless Image: Bataille, Bergson, Magritte
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This paper explores Bataille's writings on primitive art, specifically his essay on the Lascaux cave, in order to elaborate a notion not of the informe (as contemporary art critics have done), but of the fictive figural image. It reads this "useless image"—a term borrowed from Bataille—in the work of Magritte through Bergson's notion of resemblance and the operation of attentive recognition.
Title: The Useless Image: Bataille, Bergson, Magritte
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This paper explores Bataille's writings on primitive art, specifically his essay on the Lascaux cave, in order to elaborate a notion not of the informe (as contemporary art critics have done), but of the fictive figural image.
It reads this "useless image"—a term borrowed from Bataille—in the work of Magritte through Bergson's notion of resemblance and the operation of attentive recognition.
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