Salvador Dalí / Eric Shanes.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Shanes, Eric, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Dalí, Salvador, 1904-1989.

Dalí, Salvador.

Artists--Spain--Biography.

Artists.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (200 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Parkstone International, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Salvador Dalí (1904-1989) is best known for his unique and striking style with an extraordinary repertoire reaching out across film, painting, photography, and sculpture. Whilst his name may be most commonly associated with Surrealism, Dalí consummately displayed mastery over such broad genres as classical, modernist, and Cubist styles. A crucial figure in art history, Dalí has inspired countless literary works and this edifying Best Of volume gives readers a fascinating insight into the life and career highlights of one of art's most controversial and exciting pioneers.

Contents:

Contents; Introduction; The Masterworks; PORT OF CADAQUÉS AT NIGHT; LANDSCAPE NEAR CADAQUÉS; CUBIST SELF-PORTRAIT; SATIRICAL COMPOSITION ('THE DANCE' BY MATISSE); PORTRAIT OF LUIS BUÑUEL; FIGURE AT A WINDOW; THE GIRL OF FIGUERES; APPARATUS AND HAND; UNSATISFIED DESIRES; BATHER; THE WOUNDED BIRD; THE SACRED HEART (SOMETIMES I SPIT WITH PLEASURE ON THE PORTRAIT OF MY MOTHER); THE FIRST DAYS OF SPRING; PORTRAIT OF PAUL ÉLUARD; THE GREAT MASTURBATOR; THE ENIGMA OF DESIRE: MY MOTHER, MY MOTHER, MY MOTHER; WILLIAM TELL; INVISIBLE SLEEPING WOMAN, HORSE, LION

PREMATURE OSSIFICATION OF A RAILWAY STATION SHADES OF NIGHT DESCENDING; THE PERSISTENCE OF MEMORY; THE DREAM; PARTIAL HALLUCINATION.SIX APPARITIONS OF LENIN ONA GRAND PIANO; SURREALIST ARCHITECTURE; BIRTH OF LIQUID DESIRES; PORTRAIT OF THE VICOMTESSE MARIE-LAURE DE NOAILLES; THE ENIGMA OF WILLIAM TELL; THE ARCHITECTONIC ANGELUS OF MILLET; GALA AND THE ANGELUS OF MILLET PRECEDING THE IMMINENT ARRIVAL OF THE CONIC ANAMORPHOSES; ATAVISTIC VESTIGES AFTER THE RAIN; WEANING OF FURNITURE NUTRITION; THE FACE OF MAE WEST (USEABLE AS A SURREALIST APARTMENT); PORTRAIT OF GALA

A COUPLE WITH THEIR HEADS FULL OF CLOUDS MORPHOLOGICAL ECHO; THE PHARMACIST OF AMPURDÀ N IN SEARCH OFABSOLUTELY NOTHING; SOFT CONSTRUCTION WITH BOILED BEANS -PREMONITION OF CIVIL WAR; THE GREAT PARANOIAC; VENUS DE MILO WITH DRAWERS; THE ANTHROPOMORPHIC CABINET; METAMORPHOSIS OF NARCISSUS; THE BURNING GIRAFFE; SLEEP; SWANS REFLECTING ELEPHANTS; SOFA IN THE FORM OF MAE WEST'S LIPS; LOBSTER TELEPHONE; SPAIN; IMPRESSIONS OF AFRICA; APPARITION OF FACE AND FRUIT DISH ON A BEACH; THE ENIGMA OF HITLER; THE SUBLIME MOMENT; THE SLAVE MARKET WITH THE DISAPPEARING BUST OF VOLTAIRE; VISAGE OF WAR

SOFT SELF-PORTRAIT WITH GRILLED BACON DESIGN FOR THE INTERIOR DECORATION OF STABLE-LIBRARY; THE SHEEP; HELENA RUBINSTEINÊS HEAD EMERGING FROM A ROCKY CLIFF; DREAM CAUSED BY THE FLIGHT OF A BEE AROUND A POMEGRANATE ONE SECOND BEFORE AWAKENING; THE APOTHEOSIS OF HOMER; PORTRAIT OF ISABEL STYLER-TAS; THE TEMPTATION OF ST ANTHONY; PORTRAIT OF PICASSO; LEDA ATOMICA; THE MADONNA OF PORT LLIGAT; CHRIST OF ST JOHN OF THE CROSS; THE DISINTEGRATION OF PERSISTENCE OF MEMORY; EXPLODING RAPHAELESQUE HEAD; THE COLOSSUS OF RHODES; YOUNG VIRGIN AUTO SODOMISED BY HER OWN CHASTITY; THE SACRAMENT OF THE LAST SUPPER

PORTRAIT OF SIR LAURENCE OLIVIER IN THE ROLE OF KING RICHARD III UNSTILL STILL LIFE; SANTIAGO EL GRANDE; THE DISCOVERY OF AMERICA BY CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS; PORTRAIT OF MY DEAD BROTHER; HERCULES LIFTS THE SKIN OF THE SEA AND STOPS VENUS FOR AN INSTANT FROM WAKING LOVE; FIFTY ABSTRACT PAINTINGS WHICH AS SEEN FROM TWO YARDS CHANGE INTO THREE LENINS MASQUERADING AS CHINESE AND AS SEEN FROM SIX YARDS APPEAR ASTHE HEAD OF AROYAL BENGAL TIGER; THE PERPIGNAN RAILWAYSTATION; THE HALLUCINOGENIC TOREADOR; THE SWALLOW' S TAIL (SERIES ON CATASTROPHES); Selected Bibliography; Chronology; List of Illustrations

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-78310-087-7

OCLC:

881887583