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The Secret Life of Salvador Dali by Salvador Dali (Book, 1993)
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Painter, designer, and filmmaker Salvador Dali (1904-1989) was one of the most colorful and controversial figures in 20th-century art. A pioneer of Surrealism, he was both praised and reviled for the subconscious imagery he projected into his paintings, which he sometimes referred to as hand-painted dream photographs. This early autobiography, which takes him through his late thirties, is as startling and unpredictable as his art. It is superbly illustrated with over 80 photographs of Dali and his works, and scores of Dali drawings and sketches. On its first publication, the reviewer of Books observed: It is impossible not to admire this painter as writer. As a whole, he . . . communicates the snobbishness, self-adoration, comedy, seriousness, fanaticism, in short the concept of life and the total picture of himself he sets out to portray. Dali's flamboyant self-portrait begins with his earliest recollections and ends at the pinnacle of his earliest successes. His tantalizing chapter titles and headnotes -- among them Intra-Uterine Memories, Apprenticeship to Glory, Permanent Expulsion from the School of Fine Arts, Dandyism and Prison, I am Disowned by my Family, My Participation and my Position in the Surrealist Revolution, and Discovery of the Apparatus for Photographing Thought -- only hint at the compelling revelations to come. Here are fascinating glimpses of the brilliant, ambitious, and relentlessly self-promoting artist who designed theater sets, shop interiors, and jewelry as readily as he made surrealistic paintings and films. Here is the mind that could envision and create with great technical virtuosity images of serene Raphaelesque beauty one moment and nightmarish landscapes of soft watches, burning giraffes, and fly-covered carcasses the next. For anyone interested in 20th-century art and one of its most gifted and charismatic figures, The Secret Life of Salvador Dali is must reading.Product Identifiers
PublisherDover Publications Inc.
ISBN-139780486274546
eBay Product ID (ePID)89541461
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Book TitleThe Secret Life of Salvador Dali
AuthorSalvador Dali
FormatBook
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year1993
GenreBiographies & True Stories
Number of Pages432 Pages
Additional Product Features
Title_AuthorSalvador Dali
Country/Region of ManufactureUnited States
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- 04 Feb, 2021
Amazing quality, it’s brand new
Very happy with my purchase. Even it’s used it does look like a brand new book. Came very quickly.Verified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned
