Dali by Dali

by Salvador Dalí, Eleanor R. Morse (Translator)

Dali by Salvador Dali by Harry N. FIRST First Edition, First Printing. Published by Harry N. Abrams Inc., 1970. Octavo. Hardcover. Book is very good. No dust jacket. 100% positive feedback. 30 day money back guarantee. NEXT DAY SHIPPING! Excellent customer service. Please email with any questions. All books packed carefully and ship with free delivery confirmation/tracking. All books come with free bookmarks. Ships from Sag Harbor, New York.Seller 325077 Art We Buy Books! Collections - Libraries - Estates - Individual Titles. Message us if you have books to sell!

Genres: Art, Biography, Art and Photography, Nonfiction

156 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1968

About the author

Salvador Domingo Felipe Jacinto Dalí i Domènech, 1st Marquis of Púbol, was a Spanish surrealist painter born in Figueres, Catalonia.

Dalí was a skilled draftsman, best known for the striking and bizarre images in his surrealist work. His painterly skills are often attributed to the influence of Renaissance masters. His best known work, The Persistence of Memory, was completed in 1931.

Salvador Dalí's artistic repertoire also included film, sculpture, and photography. He collaborated with Walt Disney on the Academy Award-nominated short cartoon Destino, which was released posthumously in 2003. He also collaborated with Alfred Hitchcock on Hitchcock's film Spellbound.

Dalí insisted on his "Arab lineage", claiming that his ancestors were descended from the Moors who occupied Southern Spain for nearly 800 years (711-1492), and attributed to these origins, "my love of everything that is gilded and excessive, my passion for luxury and my love of oriental clothes."

Widely considered to be greatly imaginative, Dalí had an affinity for doing unusual things to draw attention to himself. This sometimes irked those who loved his art as much as it annoyed his critics, since his eccentric manner sometimes drew more public attention than his artwork. The purposefully-sought notoriety led to broad public recognition and many purchases of his works by people from all walks of life.

Reviews

[John Jordan · Rating 5 out of 5]

If intelligence does not exist at birth, it will not exixt at all......
8. This is the number of the tree of Jesse, Christ the king and the 8 monarchs that will one day flourish in Europe

[Matt 2D · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book is basically close-ups on all the Salvador Dali paintings. The pictures show the unnoticed details of many of his well-known paintings.

[Tripmastermonkey · Rating 3 out of 5]

salvador is kind of an idiot. i understand more about surrealism now, as a psychological & political movement as well as an aesthetic movement, and i understand why dali was run outta town by those fools. he says stupid shit like "i am an anarchist monarchist!" but he still has amazing form, as anyone can see.

[Jane · Rating 5 out of 5]

Amazing.

[Suresh]

I find some images evocative, mesmerising (where I need to figure out what is going on and why the image evokes something in me) and pleasing to the eye.

[Alex · Rating 4 out of 5]

Divided into five sections entitled The Planetarian Dali, The Molecular Dali, The Monarchical Dali, The Hallucinogenic Dali, and The Futuristic Dali with examples of each. A nice companion book as the paintings here are only details, but I'm reminded that Dali was not only a showman, but a genius and a great painter as well.

"I have never taken drugs, since I am the drug. I don't talk about hallucinations, I evoke them. Take me, I am the drug; take me, I am hallucinogenic!"

[Tentatively, Convenience · Rating 4 out of 5]

A gorgeously produced bk by a great painter from a great art bk publisher. This is all details - wch is nice considering that the size of the bk, despite the excellent printing, wd make seeing full-size paintings a bit difficult.

[Jay · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book is how I memorized the titles of Dali's weird and wonderful works (and still remember to this day). Very nice organization by the artist's various phases. "What is beauty? Nobody knows yet, since it is too obvious," - Dali.

[S.E. Martens · Rating 5 out of 5]

I wonder what I thought about this the first time I read it (in high school)? I am utterly mystified now. I remember I loved Dali's art then (and still do) and the details presented here - in gorgeous full colour - are phenomenal. But if you asked me to explain any of it you'd get a helpless shrug.

[Aaron the Pink Donut · Rating 5 out of 5]

"Each Time Someone dies, it is Jules Verne's Fault"

[Cameron · Rating 4 out of 5]

A total hallucination! wonderful pictures...

[Ashley · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is a wonderful book, the photographs are very vivid and stunning. A great collector's piece that all Dali fans should own.