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The Surrealist and the Sex Pistol:  André Masson and Malcolm McLaren Photos by Man Ray (c. 1930) and Joe Stevens (1976)     I.    When asked...

Jacques Prévert: Je ne suis pas un con!     I.    One of the idiomatic expressions that I hate most is: It takes one to know one .    Used b...

Byung-Chul Han   IV.    Whilst philosophe du moment Byung-Chul Han gives reference to the four great Bs of 20th-century French philosophy -...

Ceci est une pipe     If there is one picture in which Surrealist art, nude photography, and porn all come together, it's a notorious im...

  Although we might trace the history of the photo booth back to the late 19th-century, I think it's fair to say that what most people...

A young female fan of French poetry in the  1950s paying hommage to her hero Nerval   In urban slang, apparently, walking the lobster mean...

François Marie Charles Fourier  (1772 - 1837)   Le bonheur consiste à avoir de nombreuses passions  et de nombreux moyens pour les satisfair...

Salvador Dalí: The Enigma of Hitler  (1939) Oil on canvas (95 x 141 cm) Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia I. A lot ...

You can tell a lot about a man by his moustache ... I. One of the things I like about Salvador Dalí is that, like Bataille, he rea...

Les 120 Journées de Sodome ou l'école du libertinage  (1785)  Photo of the original manuscript: Benoit Tessier / Reuters ...

André Masson: Mannequin (1938) Photo by Raoul Ubac (gelatin silver print) The Cleveland Museum of Art   If you love Love, yo...

Cover of the 1930 pamphlet produced by Georges Bataille and others  in response to André Breton's attack upon them in the  Second S...

Salvador Dali: The Lugubrious Game (1929) Unlike Bataille, obsessed with making an all-out assault upon human dignity and aestheti...

André Breton was not the last to describe and attempt to dismiss Bataille as an excremental philosopher . But such a characterization...