Dalà (Colour Library)

Masters, Christopher

ISBN 10: 071483338X / ISBN 13: 9780714833385

Published by Phaidon Press, 1998

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Dalà (Colour Library)
• Publisher: Phaidon Press
• Publication Date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 071483338X
• ISBN 13: 9780714833385
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: Very Good

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Synopsis

Salvador Dalí (1904-89) was one of the most controversial and paradoxical artists of the twentieth century. A painter of considerable virtuosity, he used a traditional illusionistic style to create disturbing images filled with references to violence, death, cannibalism and bizarre sexual practices, from the extraordinary limp watches in The Persistence of Memory to the gruesome monster in Soft Construction with Boiled Beans: Premonition of Civil War and the fetishistic lobster in the famous Lobster Telephone.

Born in Figueras, Spain, Dalí was initially influenced by Impressionism and Cubism, but subsquently became involved with the Surrealists, the most revolutionary artists of the time. They regarded his paintings as revealing the normally hidden world of the unconscious. Indeed the Surrealists’ leader, André Breton, remarked: “It is perhaps with Dalí that for the first time the windows of the mind are opened fully wide”. However, Breton later expelled him from the grou

About the Author

Christopher Masters is an art historian with a special interest in the art of the early twentieth century.