The secret life of Salvador Dalí - Salvador Dalí

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This startling early autobiography takes Dalí through his late 30s and "communicates the snobbishness, self-adoration, comedy, seriousness, fanaticism, in short the concept of life and the total picture of himself (Dalí) sets out to portray" ? Books. Superbly illustrated with over 80 photographs and scores of Dalí drawings and sketches.

Painter, designer, and filmmaker Salvador Dalí (19041989) was one of the most colorful 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 writer. As a whole, he . . ...
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1993Uitgever: Dover400 paginasTaal: EngelsISBN-10: 0486274543ISBN-13: 9780486274546

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