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Synopsis
Dali is one of the most important surrealistic painters and most eccentric of all artists of the Modern Age. His old-school techniques contrasted sharply with the other Surrealists, which led to his expulsion from the group. Death, decay and destruction are often repeated themes, influenced by Max Ernst, Giorgio de Chirico and the writing of Sigmund Freud. He described his style as a 'paranoid-critical method'. Sexual and religious content is mixed with highly subjective and personal sensations. Dali's oeuvre extends beyond painting to include sculptures, films, jewelery and glass objects. His life was marred by an early identity crisis, which lead to Dali living his life between exaggerated self-promotion and psychological self-destruction. Gala, his wife and muse, was always able to save him from the latest crisis. But it was Dali himself who invented himself as a commercial object.
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The Life & Times series tells the stories of those who have shaped our present and our past, from Beethoven to Curie, Dietrich to Wilde. Offering expert, eminently readable texts by distinguished authors, these beautifully designed books feature chronologies, full indices, and striking color photos and illustrations. Together, they form a superb modern library of biography.
About the Author
Linde Salber is a Doctor of Psychology. She teaches at the University of Cologne and specialises in the psychological analysis of artists' lives and their work.
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- PublisherHaus Pub
- ISBN 10 1904341764
- ISBN 13 9781904341765
- BindingHardcover
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages192
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Haus Publishing, London 2004, 2004
ISBN 10: 1904341764
ISBN 13: 9781904341765
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Seller: THE CROSS Art + Books, Sydney, NSW, Australia
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19.5 x 12.5cms, 170pp, colour illusts, very good+ paperback & cover The chapters are: self-dramatisation from the beginning, the exaltation of his early years (1904-1922); a holy trickster, how ro study art (1922-1928); the ridle of sur-real, unknown horizons of reality (1929-1939); shaman of the moderns, transatlantic artfulness (1939-1948); New York/Paris/ Port Lligat, Spanish renaissance (1948-1959); on top of his world, between pop art & pomp art (1948-1959); the grand drama, living & dying in a total work of art (1970-1989). Seller Inventory # 165696
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