Dalí / Robert Radford.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Radford, Robert.

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Series:

Art & ideas

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Dalí, Salvador, 1904-1989--Criticism and interpretation.

Dalí, Salvador.

Dalí, Salvador, 1904-1989.

Surrealism.

Art, Spanish--20th century.

Art, Spanish.

Criticism and interpretation.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

351 pages : illustrations (some color), map ; 22 cm.

Place of Publication:

London : Phaidon Press, 2004.

Summary:

One of the best-known and most visually influential artists of the twentieth century, Salvador Dali (1904-89) redefined the boundaries of art, fashion and popular culture. His melting watches, space elephants and the sofa inspired by Mae West's lips have become firmly established both in the popular imagination and the world of advertising. In this fascinating account, Dali the painter, writer, filmmaker, illustrator, object-maker, jewellery designer, myth-maker and performance artist are all given proper recognition.

Robert Radford analyses the artist's complex personality and the rich variety of his work against the background of ideological and political conflict that erupted in the Spanish Civil War and the Second World War. He traces Dali's career from the crucial early years in the Spanish town of Figueras to membership of the Surrealist group in 1930s' Paris, then on to New York and Hollywood, where his purposefully extravagant behaviour made him a media star. Radford succeeds in making the reader rethink and re-evaluate the work of one of the most popular artists of the twentieth century.

Contents:

1. False Memories and Real Passions: Growing up in Catalunya

2. Modern Painters in their White Studios: The Student Years

3. Illuminated Pleasures: Arrival in Paris

4. Systematized Confusion: The Surrealist Years

5. Living in the Atomic Era: Dali and America

6. Wearing the Uniform of the Celebrity: Dali and the World

7. Spectacles and Illusions: The Museums of Dali

8. The Persistence of the Embarrassing Genius: Reappraising Dali.

Notes:

"First published 1997, reprinted 1998, 1999, 2001, 2004"--Colophon.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 344-345) and index.

ISBN:

9780714834115

0714834114

OCLC:

927660263