Dalí: 1904-1989: Conquest of the Irrational (Basic Art) - Hardcover

Néret, Gilles

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 3836560003 ISBN 13: 9783836560009

Verlag: Taschen, 2015

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Lobsters and lunacy

The zaniest Surrealist of them all

Painter, sculptor, writer, film-maker, and all-round showman Salvador Dal (1904 1989)was one of the twentieth century s greatest exhibitionists and eccentrics. One of the first artists to apply the insights of Freudian psychoanalysis to art, he is celebrated in particular for his surrealist practice, with such conceits as the soft watches or the lobster telephone, now hallmarks of the surrealist enterprise, and of modernism in general.

Dal frequently described his paintings as hand-painted dream photographs. Their tantalizing tension and interest resides in the precise rendering of bizarre elements and incongruous arrangements. As Dal himself explained, he painted with the most imperialist fury of precision, but only to systematize confusion and thus to help discredit completely the world of reality.

Revolutionizing the role of the artist, the mustache-twirling Dal also had the intuition to parade a controversial persona in the public arena and, through printmaking, fashion, advertising, writing, and film, to create work that could be consumed and not just contemplated on a gallery wall.

This book explores both the painting and the personality of Dal, introducing his technical skill as well as his provocative compositions and challenging themes of death, decay, and eroticism.

About the Series:Each book in TASCHEN s Basic Art series features: a detailed chronological summary of the life and oeuvre of the artist, covering his or her cultural and historical importancea concise biographyapproximately 100 illustrations with explanatory captions

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Pintor, escultor, escritor, cineasta y un auténtico showman, Salvador Dalí (1904-1989) fue uno de los personajes más exhibicionistas y excéntricos del siglo XX. Pionero en introducir en el arte las ideas del psicoanálisis freudiano, es célebre en particular por sus prácticas surrealistas, con ideas tales como los relojes blandos o el teléfono langosta, que se han convertido en iconos del movimiento surrealista y del arte moderno en general.

Dalí solía describir sus cuadros como "fotografías de sueños pintadas a mano". La representación precisa de elementos estrambóticos y su disposición incongruente crean una incitante tensión e interés. Él mismo explicó que pintaba con "el afán de la precisión más imperialista", pero solo "para sistematizar la confusión y contribuir al descrédito total del mundo de la realidad".

Con su peculiar bigote revolucionó el papel del artista representando a un personaje polémico en la esfera pública y creando obras que, además de contemplarse en las paredes de las galerías, podían consumirse en el ámbito de las artes gráficas, la moda, la publicidad, la escritura y el cine.

Este libro descubre las pinturas y la personalidad de Dalí, mostrando no solo su destreza técnica sino también sus composiciones provocadoras y sus temas estimulantes, como la muerte, la decadencia y el erotismo.

Biografía del autor:

Gilles Néret (1933–2005) was an art historian, journalist, writer and museum correspondent. He organized several art retrospectives in Japan and founded the SEIBU museum and the Wildenstein Gallery in Tokyo. He directed art reviews such as L'Œil and Connaissance des Arts and received the Elie Faure Prize in 1981 for his publications. His TASCHEN titles include Salvador "Dalí: The Paintings", "Matisse", and "Erotica Universalis".

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• Verlag: Taschen
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2015
• ISBN 10: 3836560003
• ISBN 13: 9783836560009
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 96