Dali
2nd Edition
Published on 30. May 1995
Book
Paperback/Softback
216 pages
978-0-500-20280-7 (ISBN)
Description
This study of Salvador Dali's work asks what accounts for his popularity as an artist. Is it the accessibility of his imagery or his talent as a self-publicist?
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Series
Edition
Revised and updated edition
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Edition type
Revised edition
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Illustrations
142 Illustrations, black and white; 28 Illustrations, color
Dimensions
Height: 210 mm
Width: 150 mm
Thickness: 14 mm
Weight
271 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-500-20280-7 (9780500202807)
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Person
Dawn Ades is a professor emerita of the history and theory of art at the University of Essex. She has written extensively on Dada, Surrealism, photography, and women artists, among other topics. Her many books also include Dalí and, with Neil Cox and David Hopkins, Marcel Duchamp, both in the World of Art series.
Content
Early years; Dali and the Catalan avant-garde; Dali, Surrealism and psycho-analysis; painting and the paranoiac-critical method; Dali and the Surrealist object; Dali's post-war painting; Dali and the cinema.