Quixotic Quests

Salvador Dalí's First Illustrated Don Quixote

AvDaniel Holcombe

Inbunden, Engelska, 2025

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Beskrivning

Salvador Dalí illustrated Miguel de Cervantes’s Don Quixote for the first time while living in exile in the United States in the 1940s, collaborating with Random House to produce a special edition that was published in 1946. Quixotic Quests examines the material history of this 1946 edition by bridging art history, book history, literature, and narratology, while exploring Dalí's role as its illustrator and the reception of both by mid-century popular culture, art historians, and literary scholars.Positing that much of Dalí's life was quixotic in nature, the book investigates his quest to illustrate the novel with an unprecedented level of pictorial didacticism, despite challenges that the artist and Random House faced during and after the Second World War. It details his resolute passion to integrate surrealism with classicism, visual art with narrative, sexuality with sublimation, and privacy with public persona. Contrasting Dalí's visual achievements with other artists and stylistic movements, Quixotic Quests sheds new light on the niche that Dalí created for himself as a surrealist illustrator of Don Quixote. Consulting his autobiographical narratives, the book analyses Dalí's unique artistic contributions to the four-hundred-year print history of the novel, while emphasizing the artist's heartfelt appreciation and respect for his book illustrations.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2025-06-04
Mått:160 x 235 x 28 mm
Vikt:780 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Toronto Iberic
Antal sidor:394
Förlag:University of Toronto Press
ISBN:9781487555740

Utforska kategorier

Socialhistoria och kulturhistoria inom Historia och arkeologi
Konsthistoria inom Kultur
Litteraturvetenskap inom Skönlitteratur

Mer om författaren

Daniel Holcombe is an associate professor of Spanish at Georgia College & State University.

Innehållsförteckning

List of IllustrationsList of TablesList of AppendicesPreface1. FoundationsDalinian QuixotismDefining Classicism: Dalí, Freud, Sublimation, and ImitationConscious versus Unconscious; Public versus PrivateUt pictura poesis: Dalinian Narrative and CriticismObject as Fetish: Lacan’s L’objet petit a and Salvador Dalí’s ClédalismExperto credite: Dalí’s Quixotic Sally to the United States2. MaterialitiesThe 1946 Edition: Publishers, Economic Woes, and LiteraturePublic Documents: Unforeseen Challenge and SuccessRevival of LiteraturePrivate Documents: Random House RecordsA Quixotic Cast of (Random House) CharactersThe Adventure of the Missing Illustrations3. ReceptionsSalvador Dalí in an Unpredictable WorldMalgré Lui: Past Political PolemicsSurrealism and Avant-Garde as KitschPopular Culture and Translations: Peter MotteuxUS Academic ReceptionBattling the Black Legend4. IllustrationsEngaging Beholders: Dalinian Didacticism and Academic ArtBattling Surrealism as Kitsch: Futurity of Renaissance Classicism and Baroque MethodologiesClassicism and Myth: Don Quixote’s First Sally with Phoebus and AuroraPictorial Diegesis: Don Quixote and the WindmillsFantasy and Reality: Don Quixote and the Adventure of the Flock of Sheep(Not So) Impossible Dreams: Surrealism in Dalí’s Other Seven 1946 WatercoloursRespecting Narratives: Dalí’s Black and White Line Drawings5. TraditionsIllustrating Don Quixote: Academic Conversations at the Four-Hundred-Year Anniversary of Part I (2005)Sister Arts: Literature and Book IllustrationIllustrative Trends: Foundational Early Illustrated Editions of Don QuixoteSpanish Illustrators: Neoclassical Spanishness in the 1780 Royal Spanish Academy EditionFrench Romanticism: Tony Johannot (1836) and Gustave Doré (1863) Pictorial Benchmarks: Book Illustrations of Don Quixote and the Windmills before DalíImitatio: Dalinian Compositional Tropes in Book Illustrations after 1946EpilogueWorks CitedIndex