Dali By Paul Moorhouse
Dali By Paul Moorhouse
Softcover
ISBN 0862885469
Publisher: PRC Publishing Ltd 1990
Used - Very Good+. This book is in very good condition. The wraps have some slight/limited signs of wear but the pages are clean, intact and the spine remains undamaged. This book has clearly been well maintained and looked after thus far. Light tanning.
Every time someone dies, it s Jules Verne fault claimed Salvador Dali. Whoever was responsible for his death in 1989, it brought to an end one of the twentieth century s most extraordinary lives. For more than sixty years Dali, with his trademark moustache, epitomized the eccentric artist; he once tried to give a lecture dressed in a diving suit and arrived at the Sorbonne in a Rolls Royce filled with cauliflowers.
This book explores the rich complexity of his imagination and sets him in context as both a scion of the Surrealist movement and a fiercely independent spirit.
A comprehensive introduction focuses on Dali s development and uses of the paranoiac-critical method in the early 1930 s as a means of liberating the creative unconsciousness.
The author argues that the paintings of this period, with their hallucinatory force, represent the most original and exciting period in Dali s long working life, and relates them to both his earlier Surrealist work and his post-war painting. 60 of his most representative works are reproduced in large-format full color, and detailed commentaries elucidate their complex and disturbing imagery, the expression of Dali s personal obsessions. Dali is a fitting memorial to a unique artistic phenomenon.
