Find a copy in the library
Finding libraries that hold this item...
Details
| Named Person: | Salvador Dalí |
|---|---|
| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Salvador Dalí; Ian Gibson; Michael Raeburn; Hayward Gallery.; Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.).; et al |
| ISBN: | 0500236895 9780500236895 |
| OCLC Number: | 30703788 |
| Notes: | Catalogue of an exhibition held at the Hayward Gallery, 3 March - 30 May, 1994 and at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 28 June - 18 Sept. 1994. |
| Description: | 248 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 28 cm. |
| Contents: | Ode to Salvador Dali / Federico Carcia Lorca -- Illustrated biography / Montserrat Aguer and Felix Fanes -- Salvador Dali: the Catalan background / Ian Gibson -- The Madrid years / Rafael Santos Torroella -- The first image: Dali and his critics / Felix Fanes -- Morphologies of desire / Dawn Ades -- The Andalusian beasts / Agustin Sanchez Vidal -- Selection of texts by Salvador Dali -- Introduction / Arthur Terry. Translations / John London. |
| Other Titles: | Salvador Dalí, the early years. |
| Responsibility: | Ian Gibson ... [et al.] ; edited by Michael Raeburn. |
Abstract:
Published to accompany an international exhibition of Dali's work to be seen at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, London's Hayward Gallery and the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, the book contains innovative essays by some of the best-known writers on Dali, Surrealism and contemporary cultural life in Spain, including Dawn Ades, Ian Gibson and Rafael Santos Torroella. Dali's upbringing in Figueres and Cadaques, his student years in Madrid, his relationship with the poet Federico Garcia Lorca, his collaboration with the filmmaker Bunuel, the critical reception of his work, and his ambivalent connection to the French Surrealists before 1930 are all discussed, illuminating in an unprecedented way the imagery of his paintings.
This highly original reassessment of Dali's artistic complexity and importance as an innovator contains extensive, previously unpublished documentary material and has been designed to recreate the distinctive look of publications of the period. It includes an extended selection of his texts in translation, an illustrated chronology, many drawings and color plates of the most significant paintings of the period.
Reviews