Description: Publisher : TASCHEN; Illustrated edition (September 3, 2015)Hardcover : 96 pagesItem Weight : 1.36 poundsDimensions : 8.4 x 0.5 x 10.3 inches Painter, sculptor, writer, filmmaker, and all-round showman Salvador Dalí (1904–1989) was one of the 20th century’s greatest exhibitionists and eccentrics. One of the first artists to apply the insights of Freudian psychoanalysis to art, he is celebrated in particular for his surrealist practice, with such conceits as the soft watches or the lobster telephone, now hallmarks of the surrealist enterprise, and of modernism in general. Dalí frequently described his paintings as “hand-painted dream photographs.” Their tantalizing tension and interest resides in the precise rendering of bizarre elements and incongruous arrangements. As Dalí himself explained, he painted with “the most imperialist fury of precision,” but only “to systematize confusion and thus to help discredit completely the world of reality.” Revolutionizing the role of the artist, the mustache-twirling Dalí also had the intuition to parade a controversial persona in the public arena and, through printmaking, fashion, advertising, writing, and film, to create work that could be consumed and not just contemplated on a gallery wall. This book explores both the painting and the personality of Dalí, introducing his technical skill as well as his provocative compositions and challenging themes of death, decay, and eroticism. About the series Born back in 1985, the Basic Art Series has evolved into the best-selling art book collection ever published. Each book in TASCHEN’s Basic Art series features: a detailed chronological summary of the life and oeuvre of the artist, covering his or her cultural and historical importance a concise biography approximately 100 illustrations with explanatory captions
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Subjects: Art & Culture
Book Title: Dalí
Number of Pages: 96 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Taschen
Topic: History / Modern (Late 19th Century to 1945), Individual Artists / General, Individual Artists / Monographs
Publication Year: 2015
Item Height: 0.7 in
Illustrator: Yes
Genre: Art
Item Weight: 21.8 Oz
Author: Gilles Néret
Item Length: 10.5 in
Item Width: 8.6 in
Format: Hardcover
