Dali (eBook)

Shanes Eric Shanes (Autor)

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2014
200 Seiten
Confidential Concepts (Verlag)
978-1-78310-087-3 (ISBN)

Infos

Salvador Dalí (1904-1989) is best known for his unique and striking style with an extraordinary repertoire reaching out across film, painting, photography, and sculpture. Whilst his name may be most commonly associated with Surrealism, Dalí consummately displayed mastery over such broad genres as classical, modernist, and Cubist styles. A crucial figure in art history, Dalí has inspired countless literary works and this edifying Best Of volume gives readers a fascinating insight into the life and career highlights of one of art's most controversial and exciting pioneers.

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Salvador Dali (1904-1989) is best known for his unique and striking style with an extraordinary repertoire reaching out across film, painting, photography, and sculpture. Whilst his name may be most commonly associated with Surrealism, Dali consummately displayed mastery over such broad genres as classical, modernist, and Cubist styles. A crucial figure in art history, Dali has inspired countless literary works and this edifying Best Of volume gives readers a fascinating insight into the life and career highlights of one of art's most controversial and exciting pioneers.

Inhalt

Contents 5
Introduction 7
The Masterworks 57
PORT OF CADAQUÉS AT NIGHT 58
LANDSCAPE NEAR CADAQUÉS 61
CUBIST SELF-PORTRAIT 62
SATIRICAL COMPOSITION ('THE DANCE' 
65 
PORTRAIT OF LUIS BUÑUEL 66
FIGURE AT A WINDOW 69
THE GIRL OF FIGUERES 70
APPARATUS AND HAND 73
UNSATISFIED DESIRES 74
BATHER 74
THE WOUNDED BIRD 76
THE SACRED HEART (SOMETIMESI SPIT WITH PLEASURE ON THEPORTRAIT OF MY MOTHER) 77
THE FIRST DAYS OF SPRING 78
PORTRAIT OF PAUL ÉLUARD 81
THE GREAT MASTURBATOR 82
THE ENIGMA OF DESIRE: MY MOTHER, MY MOTHER, MY MOTHER 85
WILLIAM TELL 86
INVISIBLE SLEEPING WOMAN, HORSE, LION 89
PREMATURE OSSIFICATION OF ARAILWAY STATION 90
SHADES OF NIGHTDESCENDING 91
THE PERSISTENCE OF MEMORY 92
THE DREAM 95
PARTIAL HALLUCINATION.SIX APPARITIONS OF LENIN ONA GRAND PIANO 96
SURREALIST ARCHITECTURE 97
BIRTH OF LIQUID DESIRES 98
PORTRAIT OF THE VICOMTESSE MARIE-LAURE DE NOAILLES 101
THE ENIGMA OF WILLIAM TELL 102
THE ARCHITECTONIC ANGELUS OF MILLET 105
GALA AND THE ANGELUS OF MILLET PRECEDING THE IMMINENTARRIVAL OF THE CONIC ANAMORPHOSES 106
ATAVISTIC VESTIGES AFTER THE RAIN 109
WEANING OF FURNITURE NUTRITION 110
THE FACE OF MAE WEST (USEABLE AS A SURREALIST APARTMENT) 113
PORTRAIT OF GALA 114
A COUPLE WITH THEIR HEADSFULL OF CLOUDS 116
MORPHOLOGICAL ECHO 117
THE PHARMACIST OF AMPURDÀ 
119 
SOFT CONSTRUCTION WITH BOILED BEANS –PREMONITION OF CIVIL WAR 120
THE GREAT PARANOIAC 123
VENUS DE MILO WITH DRAWERS 124
THE ANTHROPOMORPHICCABINET 125
METAMORPHOSIS OF NARCISSUS 126
THE BURNING GIRAFFE 129
SLEEP 130
SWANS REFLECTING ELEPHANTS 133
SOFA IN THE FORM OF MAEWEST' 
134 
LOBSTER TELEPHONE 135
SPAIN 136
IMPRESSIONS OF AFRICA 139
APPARITION OF FACE AND FRUIT DISH ON A BEACH 140
THE ENIGMA OF HITLER 142
THE SUBLIME MOMENT 143
THE SLAVE MARKET WITH THE DISAPPEARING BUST OF VOLTAIRE 145
VISAGE OF WAR 146
SOFT SELF-PORTRAIT WITHGRILLED BACON 146
DESIGN FOR THE INTERIORDECORATION OF STABLE-LIBRARY 148
THE SHEEP 149
HELENA RUBINSTEINÊS HEAD EMERGING FROM A ROCKY CLIFF 151
DREAM CAUSED BY THE FLIGHT OF A BEE AROUND APOMEGRANATE ONE SECOND BEFORE AWAKENING 152
THE APOTHEOSIS OF HOMER 155
PORTRAIT OF ISABEL STYLER-TAS 156
THE TEMPTATION OF ST ANTHONY 159
PORTRAIT OF PICASSO 160
LEDA ATOMICA 163
THE MADONNA OF PORT LLIGAT 164
CHRIST OF ST JOHN OF THE CROSS 167
THE DISINTEGRATION OFPERSISTENCE OF MEMORY 168
EXPLODING RAPHAELESQUE HEAD 168
THE COLOSSUS OF RHODES 171
YOUNG VIRGIN AUTOSODOMISED BY HER OWN CHASTITY 172
THE SACRAMENT OF THE LAST SUPPER 175
PORTRAIT OF SIR LAURENCE OLIVIER IN THE ROLE OFKING RICHARD III 176
UNSTILL STILL LIFE 179
SANTIAGO EL GRANDE 180
THE DISCOVERY OF AMERICA BY CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS 183
PORTRAIT OF MY DEAD BROTHER 184
HERCULES LIFTS THE SKIN OF THE SEA AND STOPS VENUS FOR ANINSTANT FROM WAKING LOVE 187
FIFTY ABSTRACT PAINTINGSWHICH AS SEEN FROMTWO YARDS CHANGE INTOTHREE LENINS MASQUERADINGAS CHINESE AND AS SEENFROM SIX YARDS APPEAR ASTHE HEAD OF AROYAL BENGAL TIGER 188
THE PERPIGNAN RAILWAYSTATION 189
THE HALLUCINOGENIC TOREADOR 190
THE SWALLOW' 
193 
Selected Bibliography 194
Chronology 195
List of Illustrations 198

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 12.6.2014
• Verlagsort: New York
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Malerei / Plastik
• Schlagworte: ART • arte • Artist • artista • artiste • Dadaism • Dadaisme • dadaísmo • Dadaismus • Dalí • eccentric • Escultura • espagnol • Español, Surrealista • Excéntrico • Excentrique • exzentrisch • Kunst • Künstler • Malerei • Modern • Moderne • modernité • moderno • painting • peinture • pintura • sculpture • Skulptur • Spanisch • Spanish • Surrealism • Surréalisme • Surrealismo • Surrealismus • Surrealist • surréliste
• ISBN-10: 1-78310-087-7 / 1783100877
• ISBN-13: 978-1-78310-087-3 / 9781783100873