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Draws on previously untapped materials to chronicle Dali's early years, his relationship with Garcia Lorca and Andre Breton, his collaboration with Luis Bunuel on his first surrealist film, and his tormented marriage to Gala

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Meredith Etherington-Smith is the author of a biography of Jean Patou, the European editor of Town & Country, and the editor of Christie's International Magazine.
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Dal{¡}i made such a spectacle of himself and allowed his work to be devalued so scandalously in his later years that it's difficult to assess his standing as an artist, but Etherington-Smith succeeds in portraying Dal{¡}i as a "consummate communicator," whether his medium was paint, language, or performance. Dal{¡}i's childhood was suitably bizarre and rife with the secretiveness of incest and adultery. These experiences contributed to Dal{¡}i's complex sexuality, a mixture of autoerotism, voyeurism, masochism, and homosexuality. Exceptionally intelligent and talented, Dal{¡}i was drawing and painting with great facility at an early age, while already displaying the tendencies of the eccentric dandy he later became. Etherington-Smith traces Dal{¡}i's creative evolution through his early autobiographical works to the oneiric iconography of his surrealist period, and his later obsession with religious and metaphysical subjects. The two major figures in Dal{¡}i's life, after his domineering father, were Federico Garc{¡}ia Lorca who loved him and, most importantly, the notorious nymphomaniac Gala, who was more keeper, tyrant, manager, and jailer than wife. Their 50-year liaison, while strange and often painful, was undeniably fruitful. To Gala's credit, she kept Dal{¡}i sane and working; to her shame, she eventually turned him into a virtual slave to ensure that he produced enough artwork to keep her in cash and young men. Etherington-Smith discusses the more unsavory aspects of Dal{¡}i's outlandish life with unfailing sensitivity and circumspection, while basking in the glow of his finer moments. Dal{¡}i dazzled the world with his unforgettable imagery, licentious wit, flair for absurdity, and gift for melding the silly with the serious and the artistic with the crass. It's a curious fact, and one indicative of Dal{¡}i's ability to tap into the collective unconscious, that this crazy Catalan's meticulous paintings "strike resonant chords in those who are, paradoxically, not interested in painting." This is a lucid and respectful interpretation of an enigmatic and compelling subject. Donna Seaman

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  • PublisherRandom House
  • Publication date1993
  • ISBN 10 0679400613
  • ISBN 13 9780679400615
  • BindingHardcover
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  • Number of pages465
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