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Phantom Lascaux: Origin of the Work of Art
Journal article

Phantom Lascaux: Origin of the Work of Art

Steven Ungar
Yale French studies, Vol.78(78), pp.246-262
01/01/1990
DOI: 10.2307/2930126

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Abstract

The concern with origin and difference in Georges Bataille's "Lascaux or the Birth of Art" is studied. Bataille's writings are difficult to classify by genre or discipline; "Lascaux" illustrates that for Bataille the origin of art is always sought and invented in the present.
Art Bataille, Georges (1897-1962) Ethnology Literary criticism Prehistoric era

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