My studies are also directed to the ideology of surrealism. The metaphor moves between the two levels in a certain direction and is never reversible, and it is aimed at pleasure, tranquility and concordant purposes. The effect of the Bretonian rethorics is an ascendant spiral of a successive spiritualization. The aim is to expand the lifeworld upwards. The aesthetics of Bataille functions as downwardgoing.
Man is seen as bestial and the material is transferred onto the cultural.
There is a intertextual connection between the ideas of Bataille and some surrealist photographic art, e.g. J-A Boiffards. My investigation shows that the downwardgoing rethorics of Bataille has a great impact on surrealistic photography as well as on photography in general which is supported by Susan Sontags observations about the ugly in modern photography. Disguising is isolation in the depthdimension. You actually can not see the object clearly. I have found that the referential function is more important than the aestetic function not only because surrealism often asserts that the object in the picture is more important than the picture of the object.