Dalí

Eric Shanes

• Publisher: Parkstone International
• Year: 2014
• ISBN:
  9781783102914
• Topic: Art
• Subtopic: Artist Monographs

Salvador Dalí (1904-1989) is best known for his unique and striking style with an extraordinary repertoire reaching out across film, painting, photography, and sculpture. Whilst his name may be most commonly associated with Surrealism, Dalí consummately displayed mastery over such broad genres as classical, modernist, and Cubist styles. A crucial figure in art history, Dalí has inspired countless literary works and this edifying Best Of volume gives readers a fascinating insight into the life and career highlights of one of art's most controversial and exciting pioneers.

Table of contents

• Self-Portrait with the Neck of Raphael, 1921.
• Introduction
• Jean-François Millet (1814-1875), The Angelus, 1857-1859.
• Angelus, c. 1932.
• Portrait of Maria Carbona, 1925.
• Penya-Segats (Woman by the Cliffs), 1926.
• The Spectral Cow, 1928.
• Eggs on the Plate without the Plate, 1932.
• Surrealist Horse – Woman-Horse, 1933.
• Gradiva, 1933.
• Geological Destiny, 1933.
• Portrait of Gala with Two Lamb Chops Balanced on Her Shoulder, 1933.
• Cover Design for Minotaure No. 8, 1936.
• Hats Designed for Elsa Schiaparelli, 1936.
• Three Young Surrealist Women Holding in Their Arms the Skin of an Orchestra, 1936.
• Night and Day Clothes of the Body, 1936.
• Singularities, 1937.
• Debris of an Automobile Giving Birth to a Blind Horse Biting a Telephone, 1938.
• Honey is Sweeter than Blood, 1941.
• Poetry of America, 1943.
• Tristan and Isolde (design for the ballet Mad Tristan), 1944.
• The Eye (design for Spellbound), 1945.
• My Wife, Nude, Contemplating Her Own Flesh Becoming Stairs, Three Vertebrae of a Column, Sky and Architecture, 1945.
• Napoleon’s Nose, Transformed into a Pregnant Woman, Walking His Shadow with Melancholia Amongst Original Ruins, 1945.
• Dematerialization Near the Nose of Nero, 1947.
• The Angel of Port Lligat, 1952.
• The Maximum Speed of Raphael’s Madonna, 1954.
• Tuna Fishing, 1967.
• Mad Mad Mad Minerva, 1968.
• Wind Palace, 1972.
• Dali Seen from the Back Painting Gala from the Back Eternalized by Six Virtual Corneas Provisionally Reflected in Six Real Mirrors (unfinished), 1972-1973.
• Gala’s Castle at Púbol, 1973.
• Wounded Soft Watch, 1974.
• Equestrian Portrait of Carmen Bordiu-Franco, 1974.
• Soft Skulls with Fried Egg without the Plate, Angels, and Soft Watch in an Angelic Landscape, 1977.
• The Masterworks
• Port of Cadaqués at Night, c. 1918
• Landscape near Cadaqués, 1920-1921
• Cubist Self-Portrait, 1923
• Satirical Composition (‘The Dance’ by Matisse), 1923
• Portrait of Luis Buñuel, 1924
• Figure at a Window, 1925
• The Girl of Figueres, 1926
• Apparatus and Hand, 1927
• Unsatisfied Desires, 1928
• Bather, 1928
• The Wounded Bird, 1928
• The Sacred Heart (Sometimes I Spit with Pleasure on the Portrait of My Mother), 1929
• The First Days of Spring, 1929
• Portrait of Paul Éluard, 1929
• The Great Masturbator, 1929
• The Enigma of Desire: My Mother, My Mother, My Mother, 1929
• William Tell, 1930
• Invisible Sleeping Woman, Horse, Lion, 1930
• Premature Ossification of a Railway Station, 1930
• Shades of Night Descending, 1931
• The Persistence of Memory, 1931
• The Dream, 1931
• Partial Hallucination. Six Apparitions of Lenin on a Grand Piano, 1931
• Surrealist Architecture, c. 1932
• Birth of Liquid Desires, 1931-1932
• Portrait of the Vicomtesse Marie-Laure de Noailles, 1932
• The Enigma of William Tell, 1933
• The Architectonic Angelus of Millet, 1933
• Gala and the Angelus of Millet Preceding the Imminent Arrival of the Conic Anamorphoses, 1933
• Atavistic Vestiges after the Rain, 1934
• Weaning of Furniture Nutrition, 1934
• The Face of Mae West (Useable as a Surrealist Apartment), 1934-1935
• Portrait of Gala, 1935
• A Couple with their Heads Full of Clouds, 1936
• Morphological Echo, 1936
• The Pharmacist of Ampurdàn in Search of Absolutely Nothing, 1936
• Soft Construction with Boiled BEANS – Premonition of Civil War, 1936
• The Great Paranoiac, 1936
• Venus de Milo with Drawers, 1936
• The Anthropomorphic Cabinet, 1936
• Metamorphosis of Narcissus, 1937
• The Burning Giraffe, 1937
• Sleep, 1937
• Swans Reflecting Elephants, 1937
• Sofa in the Form of Mae West’s Lips, 1938
• Lobster Telephone, 1938
• Spain, 1938
• Impressions of Africa, 1938
• Apparition of Face and Fruit Dish on a Beach, 1938
• The Enigma of Hitler, 1939
• The Sublime Moment, 1938
• The Slave Market with the Disappearing Bust of Voltaire, 1940
• Visage of War, 1940
• Soft Self-Portrait with Grilled Bacon, 1941
• Design for the Interior Decoration of Stable-Library, 1942
• The Sheep, 1942
• Helena Rubinstein’s Head Emerging from a Rocky Cliff, 1942-1943
• Dream Caused by the Flight of a Bee around a Pomegranate One Second Before Awakening, 1944
• The Apotheosis of Homer, 1944-1945
• Portrait of Isabel Styler-Tas, 1945
• The Temptation of St Anthony, 1946
• Portrait of Picasso, 1947
• Leda Atomica, 1949
• The Madonna of Port Lligat, 1950
• Christ of St John of the Cross, 1951
• The Disintegration of Persistence of Memory, 1952-1954
• Exploding Raphaelesque Head, 1951
• The Colossus of Rhodes, 1954
• Young Virgin Autosodomised by Her Own Chastity, 1954
• The Sacrament of the Last Supper, 1955
• Portrait of Sir Laurence Olivier in the Role of King Richard III, 1955
• Unstill Still Life, 1956
• Santiago El Grande, 1957
• The Discovery of America by Christopher Columbus, 1954
• Portrait of My Dead Brother, 1963
• Hercules Lifts the Skin of the Sea and Stops Venus for an Instant from waking Love, 1963
• Fifty Abstract Paintings Which as Seen from Two Yards Change into Three Lenins Masquerading as Chinese and as Seen from Six Yards Appear as the Head of a Royal Bengal Tiger, 1963
• The Perpignan Railway Station, 1965
• The Hallucinogenic Toreador, 1969-1970
• The Swallow’s Tail (Series on Catastrophes), 1983
• Selected Bibliography
• Chronology