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Painter, designer, and filmmaker Salvador Dalí (1904–1989) was one of the most colourful and controversial figures in 20th-century art. A pioneer of Surrealism, he was both praised and reviled for the subconscious imagery he projected into his paintings, which he sometimes referred to as hand-painted dream photographs.This early autobiography, which takes him through his late thirties, is as startling and unpredictable as his art. It is superbly illustrated with over 80 photographs of Dalí and his works and scores of Dalí drawings and sketches. On its first publication, the reviewer of Books observed: "It is impossible not to admire this painter as a writer. As a whole, he . . . communicates the snobbishness, self-adoration, comedy, seriousness, fanaticism, in short, the concept of life and the total picture of himself he sets out to portray."Here are fascinating glimpses of the brilliant, ambitious, and relentlessly self-promoting artist who designed theatre sets, shop interiors, and jewellery as readily as he made surrealistic paintings and films. Here is the mind that could envision and create with great technical virtuosity images of serene Raphaelesque beauty one moment and ni

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Author

Salvador Dalí, Haakon M. Chevalier

Publisher

Courier Corporation

Published

2013

Language

EN

ISBN

9780486274546

Category

art

Subjects

Memoir, Crafts & Hobbies, History

Rating

4.15 / 5 (1,469 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14