Salvador Dali - Böcker

"Let us agree," Federico Garcia Lorca wrote, "that one of man's most beautiful postures is that of St. Sebastian." "In my 'Saint Sebastian' I remember you," Salvador Dali replied to Garcia Lorca, referring to the essay on aesthetics that Dali had just written, "and sometimes I think he is you. Let's see whether Saint Sebastian turns out to be you." This lively and intense exchange is but a glimpse into the complex relationship between two renowned and highly influential twentieth-century artists. On the centennial of Dali's birth, Sebastian's Arrows presents a never-before-published collection of their letters, lectures, and mementos. Written between 1925 and 1936, the letters and lectures bring to life a passionate friendship marked by a thoughtful dialogue on aesthetics and the constant interaction between poetry and painting. From their student days in Madrid's Residencia de Estudiantes, where the two waged war against cultural "putrefaction" and mocked the sacred cows of Spanish art, Dali and Garcia Lorca exchanged thoughts on the act of creation, modernity, and the meaning of their art.The volume chronicles how in their poetic skirmishes they sharpened and shaped each other's work - Garcia Lorca defending his verses of absence and elegy and his love of tradition while Dali argued for his theories of "Clarity" and "Holy Objectivity" and the unsettling logic of Surrealism. Christopher Maurer's masterful prologue and selection of letters, texts, and images (many generously provided by the Fundacion Gala-Salvador Dali and the Fundacion Federico Garcia Lorca) offer compelling and intimate insights into the lives and work of two iconic artists. The two men had a "tragic, passionate relationship," Dali once wrote - a friendship pierced by the arrows of Saint Sebastian.

Salvador Dalí's only novel beckons readers into the surrealist world already familiar to us from his paintings. In swirling prose, the iconic artist describes the intriguing love affairs and absurd escapades of a group of eccentric aristocrats, from the Paris riots of 1934 until the closing days of the Second World War.Following the thwarted affair between the Comte de Grandsailles and Solange de Clèda, this is a story of mistaken identities and unfulfilled passions, brimming with wartime espionage and irrepressible decadence. In this inimitable novel, Dalí's imagination and artistic vision reverberate through his characters' tangled lives.

DIARY OF A GENIUS stands as one of the seminal texts of Surrealism, revealing the most astonishing and intimate workings of the mind of Salvador Dal­, the eccentric polymath genius who became the living embodiment of the 20th century's most intensely subversive, disturbing and influential art movement.

New, corrected edition of a best-selling title of one of the most influential artists in history from his own hand.

Dali is the most famous artist associated with the Surrealist movement, but his official association with the movement was brief, following his expulsion by Andre Breton after five years.Oui was first published in French in 1971, and elicited a reassessment of Dali. Here through short fictions, essays and poems, Dali shows his love for his Spanish comrades, Bunuel and Lorca, his passion for the emerging arts of photography and cinema (UN CHIEN ANDALOU), his Catalan roots and subsequent entry into the cosmopolitan world of Parisian Avant Garde.