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Dover Fine Art, History of Art Ser.: The Secret Life of Salvador Dali by Salvador Dalí (1993, Trade Paperback, Reprint)

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Painter, designer, and filmmaker Salvador Dal (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 Dal and his works, and scores of Dal 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." Dal '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 Dal is must reading.

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Publisher
Dover Publications, Incorporated
ISBN-10
0486274543
ISBN-13
9780486274546
eBay Product ID (ePID)
218608

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Book Title
Secret Life of Salvador Dali
Author
Salvador Dalí
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Features
Reprint
Topic
Individual Artists / Artists' Books, Individual Artists / General, Artists, Architects, Photographers, History / Modern (Late 19th Century to 1945)
Publication Year
1993
Genre
Biography & Autobiography, Art
Number of Pages
432 Pages

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9.2in
Item Width
6.1in
Item Weight
21.7 Oz

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Lc Classification Number
Nd813.D3a2 1993
Edition Description
Reprint
Table of Content
Prologue PART ONE I. Anecdotic Self-Potrait II. Intra-Uterine Memories III. Birth of Salvador Dali IV. False Childhood Memories V. True Childhood Memories The Story of the Linden-Blossom Picking and the Crutch PART TWO VI. Adolescence; Grasshopper; Explusion from School; End of the European War VII. "It"; Philosophic Studies; Unfulfilled Love; Technical Experiments; My "Stone Period"; End of Love Affair; Mother's Death" VIII. Apprenticeship to Glory; Suspension from the School of Fine Arts of Madrid; Dandyism and Prison IX. Return to Madrid; Permanent Expulsion from the School of Fine Arts; Voyage to Paris; Meeting with Gala; Beginnings of the Difficult Idyll of my Sole and Only Love Story; I am Disowned by my Family Tale of the Wax Manikin with the Sugar Nose PART THREE X. Beginnings in Society; Crutches; Aristocracy; Hôtel du Ch'teau in Carry-le Rouet; Lydia; Port Lligat; Inventions; Malaga; Poverty; L'Age d'Or XI. "My Battle; My Participation and my Position in the Surrealist Revolution; "Surrealist Object" versus "Narrated Dream"; Critical-Paranoiac Activity versus Automatism" XII. "Glory Between the Teeth, Anguish Between the Legs; Gala Discovers and Inspires the Classicism of my Soul" XIII. Metamorphosis; Death; Resurrection XIV. Florence; Munich; Monte Carlo; Bonwit Teller; New European War; Battle Between Mlle. Chanel and M. Clavet; Return to Spain; Lisbon; Discovery of the Apparatus for Photographing Thought; Cosmogony; Perennial Victory of the Acanthus Leaf; Renaissance Epilogue
Copyright Date
1993
Target Audience
Trade
Lccn
92-036763
Dewey Decimal
B
Series
Dover Fine Art, History of Art Ser.
Dewey Edition
18
Illustrated
Yes

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Salvador Dalí is an excellent writer
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by barbarap5984Nov 07, 2009
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It confirm how "mad" or weird he was. Was impressed by his wife's devotion to him and his to her.He was certainly one of the first to have been exposed with a different way of thinking. It is still sad to me that artist don't get monetary means until after death.

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