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Record Nr.

UNINA9910966859103321

Autore

Shanes Eric

Titolo

The life and masterworks of Salvador Dalí / / Eric Shanes

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Parkstone International, c2010

ISBN

9781283956840

1283956845

9781780428796

1780428790

Edizione

[Rev. and updated 2nd ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (256 p.)

Collana

Temporis

Temporis collection

Altri autori (Persone)

DalíSalvador <1904-1989.>

ShanesEric

Disciplina

709.2

Soggetti

Artists - Spain

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Rev. ed. of a book first published by Studio Editions, London in 1994.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Introduction; The Masterworks; Selected Bibliography; Chronology; List of Illustrations

Sommario/riassunto

As a one of the foremost painters of the 20th century, Dalí, like Picasso and Warhol, can boast of having overturned the art of the previous century and directed contemporary art toward its present incarnation. As irrational as he was surrealist, this genius diver ted objects from their original meanings, plunging them into the acid of his constantly churning imagination. A megalomaniac and an artist who above all understood the force of marketing and publicity, Dalí disorients the viewer in order to draw him into the artist's world. On his canvases, images and colours crash together to expres