Sensible artistic advice and lively personal anecdotes in rare important work by famed Surrealist. Filled with Dali's outrageous egotism and unconventional humor, insights into modern art and his own drawings in the margins.
Dali's only novel. In richly visual language Dali describes the lives and loves of a group of aristocratic characters who, in their beauty, luxury, and extravagance, symbolize the decadent Europe of the 1930s. The story of the tangled lives of the protagonists, from the February riots of 1934 in Paris to the closing days of the war, is a brilliant ...
This startling early autobiography takes Dali through his late 30s and "communicates the...total picture of himself (Dali) sets out to portray" -- "Books." Superbly illustrated with over 80 photographs and scores of drawings.
This visually gripping book focuses on a central but relatively unexamined aspect of the work of Salvador Dali: his fascination with optical effects and visual perception. The book examines Dali's use of various pictorial techniques, photography, and holograms to further his exploration of visual perception and the ways that optical illusion ...
This is an autobiography of the surrealist painter. Dali records his thoughts, his torments as a painter thirsting for perfection, his love for his wife, his encounters and his ideas about aesthetics, morality, philosophy and biology.
The frank and uncensored confessions of Salvador Dal, from his childhood and first adolescent sexual experiences to his emergence as a painter, Surrealist, and eventually the most famous and possibly richest artist of modern times. These inspired tracts, covering art, love, sex, money, death, fame, science, his famous friends and enemies, and his ...
With 101 "Life" magazine covers to his credit, Philippe Halsman (1906-1979) was one of the leading portrait photographers of his time. In addition to his distinguished career in photojournalism, Halsman was one of the great pioneers of experimental photography, motivated by a profound desire to push this youngest of art forms toward new frontiers ...
A naked self-portrait, a look into everyday Dali, "Diario de un genio reveals all that one wishes to know about the private life of this artist. In the diary (which covers the years 1952-1964), Dali writes about his pictorial discoveries and about the big questions that invaded his thoughts, key to approach his art, but he also reflects about ...
Salvador Dali, who was born in Figueras in Catalonia in 1904 and died there 85 years later, was one of the most important of the Surrealists. Simultaneously a painter, writer, filmmaker and, above all, a showman, the artist created an enormous wealth of material by means of his versatile talents. With his self-dramatization and skilful ...
Dali skewers modern art and its practitioners. Outrageous evaluations of Picasso, Cezanne, Turner, more. 15 renderings of paintings discussed. 44 calligraphic decorations by Dali.
A book on Dali, with all of its components supervised by the artist himself. Its dust jacket was designed by Dali to resemble a candy box. The illustrations are juxtaposed with Dali's own thoughts and subjects that most deeply concerned him - war, his wife Gala, space/time, eroticism and mysticism.
Superb reproductions of surrealist masterpieces: "The Basket of Bread, Disappearing Bust of Voltaire, The Disintegration of the Persistence of Memory, " 21 more. Introduction. Notes. Captions.
The artist Dali's earliest writing, from the period in which he was most closely allied with the Surrealists, has never before been translated into English. This is both an entertaining and important work. Dali's well-known humor is in full evidence, but so is his serious attempt at forging a "paranoid-critical revolution".
"Let us agree," Federico Garcia Lorca wrote, "that one of man's most beautiful postures is that of St. Sebastian." "In my 'Saint Sebastian' I remember you," Salvador Dali replied to Garcia Lorca, referring to the essay on aesthetics that Dali had just written, "and sometimes I think he is you. Let's see whether Saint Sebastian turns out to be you. ...
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