DALI.

UK,Qrto s/back,no dw/dj,as issued,1st edn,3rd printing. VG+. No owner inscrptn,no dw/dj,as issued. Bright,crisp,clean,glossy laminated,colour photographic artwork by DALI,illustrated wrap,with black lettered text; with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present.Top+fore-edges slightly age/darkened - as usual/normal - contents bright,tight and clean.Some latter half's pages' bottom edges slightly wrinkled - else unaffected.UK,slim Qrto s/back,96pp [unpaginated] includes half-title+title pages,2pp blank,40 glossy colour paintings (printed on one side of the paper only),8pp text to front,comprising editor's comments and an introduction by J.G. Ballard, to rear wrap. Salvador DALI the most outstanding personality in the history of surrealist painting was born in Figueras, Spain, in 1904.His precocious brilliance revealed itself while he was an art student,and his powerful and extravagant imagination soon established him as one of the most original of the surrealist painters.For almost half a century DALI has dominated surrealism, as a result in part of his highly developed talents for self-advertisement.Few great artists of the 20thC have so exposed themselves to the glare of publicity,yet the real meaning and aims of DALI's art remain concealed and misunderstood.To many people he is a master of the lurid and bizarre,while to others the photographic realism of his exquisitely finished style gives his paintings the disturbing conviction of a waking nightmare Much of DALI's work lies in that uneasy realm beyond both seriousness and humour. Above all,he is a man of his own age,responding to its deepest preoccupations - such as the horror-technologies of WWII, Hiroshima and the H-Bomb,or the recent revival of religious mysticism - with the most appropriate techniques,whether Freudian pyschoanalysis, or the iconographies of nuclear physics and Christian symbolism.The reproduction in this book cover the entire range of DALI's paintings, and reveal the power and originality of this master of modern art. . . . . J.G. Ballard (from his intro).
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