The Secret Life of Salvador Dali

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Deicide Press, May 31, 2016 - Art - 272 pages
Salvador Dali's first volume of autobiography, completed in 1941, comprises one of modern art's most revelatory -- and revolutionary -- literary documents. Encompassing Dala-'s birth, childhood and adolescence, during which we learn of the crucial events and influences which moulded his unique perspectives on life, art, sexuality and philosophy, THE SECRET LIFE goes on the record the artist's meteoric ascendency to global renown -- starting with the Surrealist movement in 1920s Paris, and culminating in his conquest of America in the 1930s.
This new edition of THE SECRET LIFE is updated, corrected and fully illustrated, with over 30 images in full colour and another 80 in black and white, including Dala-'s original line drawings. It also includes a chronology of the artist's life from 1904-1941.

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About the author (2016)

Salvador Dalí (1904-1989) entered the ranks of the Surrealists in 1929 with a series of iconoclastic paintings which fused technical virtuosity with Freudian infantilism, leading to his invention of the "paranoiac-critical" method. Later expelled from the Surrealist Group, he was christened "Avida Dollars" by André Breton whilst acquiring the reputation of master showman and scandalist. His art and writings remain amongst the most unique and important bodies of work of the 20th Century.

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