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The Life and Masterworks of Salvador Dalí

By Eric Shanes

Book information

Publisher
Parkstone Press
Year
2011
ISBN
1844848183, 9781844848188, 978178042796
Google Books ID
Wq4YNQAACAAJ
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
50 MB (52258765 bytes)
Series
Temporis Collection
Edition
2
Pages
256\256
Topic
Art Graphic Arts
Scanned
no
Time added
2013-09-24 00:57:20

Description

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 diverted 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 express and mock certain ideas, creating a subversive eroticism that taps into the subconscious of the avid voyeurs that we are.

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