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Salvador Dalí's Dream of Venus : the surrealist funhouse from the 1939 World's Fair / Ingrid Schaffner ; photographs by Eric Schaal.
Fine Arts Library N7113.D3 A64 2002
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Schaffner, Ingrid.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Dalí, Salvador, 1904-1989. Dream of Venus.
- Dalí, Salvador.
- Dalí, Salvador, 1904-1989--Criticism and interpretation.
- Dalí, Salvador, 1904-1989.
- Installations (Art)--New York (State)--New York.
- Installations (Art).
- Surrealism--Exhibitions.
- Surrealism.
- New York World's Fair (1939-1940 : New York, N.Y.).
- New York World's Fair.
- Schaal, Eric.
- Criticism and interpretation.
- New York (State)--New York.
- Genre:
- Exhibition catalogs.
- Physical Description:
- 159 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 32 cm
- Other Title:
- Dalí's dream
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Princeton Architectural Press, [2002]
- Summary:
- The building's modern, expressionistic exterior, with an entrance framed by a woman's legs, and shocking interior, including the bare-breasted "living liquid ladies" who occupied the tanks, caused quite a stir. The funhouse was so successful that it reopened for a second season, but once torn down it faded from memory and its outlandishness became the stuff of urban myth. Now, more than 60 years later, a collection of photographs of the Dream of Venus by Eric Schaal has been discovered. In stunning black-and-white and early Kodachrome, they show both the construction and the completion of the funhouse -- from Dali painting a melting clock to showgirls parading for their audience. Salvador Dall's Dream of Venus reveals not only an eccentric work of architecture, but also a one-of-a-kind creation by one of the most fertile imaginations of the 20th century.
- Contents:
- Walking the dream
- Locating the dream
- Plotting the dream
- Finding the dream
- Funding the dream
- Dalí-niating the dream
- Censoring the dream
- Realizing the dream
- Unveiling the dream
- Repressing the dream
- Analyzing the dream
- Performing the dream
- Ending the dream.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 154-159).
- ISBN:
- 156898359X
- OCLC:
- 49923744
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