Salvador Dalí 1904-1989

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Picasso called Dali "an outboard motor that's always running." Dali thought himself a genius with a right to indulge in whatever lunacy popped into his head. Painter, sculptor, writer and film maker, Salvador Dali (1904-1989) was one of the century's greatest exhibitionists and eccentrics - and was rewarded with fierce controversy wherever he went. He was one of the first to apply the insights of Sigmund Freud and psychoanalysis to the art of painting. He brought extraordinary sensitivity, imagination and concern for precision to bear upon submerged levels of consciousness. This lively biography presents the infamous Surrealist in full colour and in his own words. His provocative ideas are all here, from the soft watches to the notorious burning giraffe. And the fantastic phenomenon that was Salvador Dali is grasped entire, and placed in his various contexts. Róbert Descharnes (born 1926) is a photographer and writer, and has made numerous films, including L'Histoire prodigieuse de... Tovább

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Picasso called Dali "an outboard motor that's always running." Dali thought himself a genius with a right to indulge in whatever lunacy popped into his head. Painter, sculptor, writer and film maker, Salvador Dali (1904-1989) was one of the century's greatest exhibitionists and eccentrics - and was rewarded with fierce controversy wherever he went. He was one of the first to apply the insights of Sigmund Freud and psychoanalysis to the art of painting. He brought extraordinary sensitivity, imagination and concern for precision to bear upon submerged levels of consciousness. This lively biography presents the infamous Surrealist in full colour and in his own words. His provocative ideas are all here, from the soft watches to the notorious burning giraffe. And the fantastic phenomenon that was Salvador Dali is grasped entire, and placed in his various contexts. Róbert Descharnes (born 1926) is a photographer and writer, and has made numerous films, including L'Histoire prodigieuse de la dentelliére et du rhinocéros. He has written for magazines in Francé and elsewhere, and has published studies of major artists, among them Antoni Gaudí and Auguste Rodin. His labours have been primarily devoted to Salvador Dali, though, and he has helped organize Dali exhibitions at major museums and galleries throughout the world. Since 1950 he has been documenting and cataloguing Dalí's paintings and writings, and is now considered the leading expert on the artist. Shortly before Dalí's death, Descharnes was appointed by him to take charge of the rights to his works, within the Société Demart Pro Arte B. V., of which Descharnes is president. As a friend of the artist for over thirty years, privy to the realities behind the public image, Róbert Descharnes is uniquely qualified to analyse Dali the man and Dali the myth. Gilles Néret (born 1933) is an art histórián, journalist and the author of numerous books on modern art. He has not only organized major retrospectives of Impressionists from Renoir to Gauguin in Japan but alsó Millet, Rousseau, Modigliani, Légér and Kandinsky as well as the Paris Biennale, modern sculpture, Dali... He is a founding member of the Seibu Museum and Wildenstein Gallery in Tokyo. He was chief editor and director of L'CEil and Connaissance des Arts. He is author of monographies on Manet, Toulouse-Lautrec, Renoir, Cézanne, Klimt, Picasso, Botticelli and received the Elie Faure prize in 1981 for his collection "A l'école des grands peintres". He has published Les Naifs (NEF-L'lllustration, Paris), Les Impressionnistes (Office du Livre, Fribourg), L'Art des années20and L'Artdesannées30(Seuil, Paris; Rizzoli, New York; Orell Füssli, Zürich), Avantgarde 1945-1975(H\rmer, Munich), 30Ansd'art moderne (Nathan, Paris), L'Art, la femme et /'automobilé (E.P.A., Paris), Ces bijoux qui font réver (Solar, Paris) and Fernand Légér (NEFL'lllustration, Paris). Vissza