Length4h 44m
About this audiobook
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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GenreOther
Length4 hrs 44 mins
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FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateJun 12, 2014
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Salvador Salvador
2Author: Eric Shanes
3Introduction
4around my glorious name.
5Louvre.‰
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6the slightest comment.
7them honestly...
8absolutely necessary.
9Hats Designed for Elsa Schiaparelli, 1936.
10greatest shame!‰...
11The Masterworks
12Salvador Dalí Museum, St Petersburg (Florida)
13LANDSCAPE NEAR CADAQUÉS
14Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid
15Gouache on cardboard, 138 x 105 cm
16Teatre-Museu Dalí, Figueres
17Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid
18FIGURE AT A WINDOW
19Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid
20When Dalí visited Picasso in Paris in April 1926, he
21APPARATUS AND HAND
22Salvador Dalí Museum, St Petersburg (Florida)
23THE WOUNDED BIRD
24A t the bottom of one of two rectangles of differently-
25Centre Georges-Pompidou, Paris
26the Sacred Heart the phrase „JÊai craché sur ma mère‰...
27favourable impression.
28PORTRAIT OF PAUL ÉLUARD
29Private collection
30Oil on canvas, 110 x 150 cm
31THE ENIGMA OF DESIRE: MY MOTHER, MY MOTHER, MY MOTHER
32Private collection
33Musée national d’Art moderne, Centre Georges-Pompidou, Paris
34INVISIBLE SLEEPING WOMAN, HORSE, LION
35In one corner of an otherwise-deserted space
36serve as a setting for some idea, for some surprising
37THE DREAM
38A n Art Nouveau-style, baptismal-font-like female head
39A huge, multiform structure towers over us, its height empha-
40Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice
41PORTRAIT OF THE VICOMTESSE MARIE-LAURE DE NOAILLES
42M arie-Laure, Vicomtesse de Noailles (1902-1970)
43If Dalí dealt with sexual dominance and emasculation in
44THE ARCHITECTONIC ANGELUS OF MILLET
45Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid
46National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa
47ATAVISTIC VESTIGES AFTER THE RAIN
48Private collection
49DalíÊs childhood nurse, Llúcia Gispert de Montcanut, here
50Gouache watercolour with graphite on newspaper, 28.3 x 17.8 cm
