TY - JOUR
TI - Masks in Documents (1929-1930), an illustrated magazine
AU - Swoboda, Tomasz
TI - Masks in Documents (1929-1930), an illustrated magazine
AB - The masks in Documents should be read in a broad context, which goes beyond the columns of the journal to also embrace the birth of ethnology in France, the surrealist neighborhood but also the years to come, which will hardly see the development of ideas sketched in the magazine. At the same time, the presence of the masks highlights the disparate character of the journal itself, where the more or less ethnological texts devoted to the masks of traditional societies respond to much less academic articles in which the mask slips in the direction of the strange and monstrous. This allows to deconstruct Western aesthetics and, first and foremost, the human figure as its most codified and, therefore, most untouchable expression. The mask can even be considered as the embodiment of the concept of disparity which seems to govern the counter-aesthetic of the journal. Finally, the mask is emblematic of the internal gap in the journal, that between ethnologists and poets, or between academicism and subversion.
VL - 2021
IS - Numéro 28
PY - 2021
SN - 2300-4681
C1 - 2353-8953
SP - 64
EP - 108
DO - 10.4467/23538953CE.21.037.15187
UR - https://ejournals.eu/en/journal/cahiers-erta/article/le-masque-dans-la-revue-documents-1929-1930
KW - mask
KW - ethnology
KW - Georges Bataille
KW - Michel Leiris
KW - Carl Einstein