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<p>The Salvador Dali Museum in St. Petersburg, Florida, houses the most comprehensive collection in the world of the art of Salvador Dali (1904-1989), the renowned Surrealist painter. From the Museum's extensive holdings, forty masterpieces have been selected for this volume by the art historian Kenneth Wach. All forty are reproduced in color, as full-page plates. For each, Mr. Wach has written an illuminating commentary, discussing both the works' style, in art-historical terms, and their often complex psychological content. In addition, the book's general introduction provides a broad overview of Dali's flamboyant career as an artist. It traces the course of Dali's development from his first childhood efforts in Catalonia to his participation in the Surrealist movement in Paris in the 1920s and 1930s, to his sojourn in the United States during World War II and his late works executed in Spain. Among the famous images included here are luminous still lifes from Dali's youth, which show his debts to the Old Masters. There are also a number of his remarkable Surrealist beach scenes, with their mysterious vistas and obsessive sexuality. Several troubled depictions of the distorted hu
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- Author
- Salvador Dalí; Kenneth Wach; James Leggio
- Publisher
- Harry N. Abrams, Publishers in association with the Salvador Dalí Museum, St. Petersburg, Fla.
- Published
- 1996
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780810932357
- Category
- art
- Subjects
- Crafts & Hobbies, Fiction, Design
- Rating
- 4.19 / 5 (16 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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