Salvador Dalí / Text Victoria Charles.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Charles, Victoria, writer of added text.

Series:

Perfect Square

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Dalí, Salvador, 1904-1989.

Dalí, Salvador.

Painters--Spain--Biography.

Painters.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (82 p.)

Place of Publication:

[New York, New York] : Parkstone International, [2011]

Summary:

As one of the foremost painters of the 20 th century, Dalí, like Picasso and Warhol, can boast of having overturned the art of the previous century and directed painting towards its modern incarnation. As irrational as he was Surrealist, this genius diverted objects from their original meanings, plunging them into the acid of his constantly churning imagination. A megalomaniac and an artist who, above all, understood the force of marketing and publicity, Dali disorients the viewer in order to draw him or her into his world. Images and colours crash together to express and mock certain ideas, c

Contents:

The Public Secret of Salvador Dalí; The Years of the King Childhood and Adolescence in Figueras and Cadaqués; From Outsider to Dandy. The Student Years in Madrid; A Friendship in Verse and Still-Life. Dalí and Garcia Lorca; The Cut Eye. Dalí and Buñuel; Gala, or The Healing Gradiva. The Surrealist Years in Paris; The Pictures behind the Pictures. Paranoia as Method; Between Worlds. First Successes in America; Break out into Tradition The Renaissance of the Universal Genius as Marketing Expert; Metamorphosis to Divine. The Time of Honour and Riches; LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed February 11, 2016).

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

9781283954600

1283954605

9781283954761

1283954761

9781780424729

1780424728

OCLC:

778727255