This volume provides a chronological survey of Salvador Dalí’s creative output, spanning his early Impressionist experiments to the late nuclear mysticism period. Authors Robert Descharnes and Gilles Néret document the artist's technical progression through surrealist masterpieces, such as the melting clocks of soft construction, while situating his work within his specific iconography of crutches, ants, and bread. The text details Dalí’s departure from the Surrealist group led by André Breton and his subsequent move toward classical religious subjects and scientific curiosity regarding the double image.
Art history students and collectors refer to this book to identify the precise evolution of Dalí’s draftsmanship and commercial collaborations. The reader gains a dictionary of the painter’s private symbols and learns to distinguish between his spontaneous paranoiac-critical method and his later, more meticulous homages to the Old Masters. It functions as a visual reference for anyone needing to trace the intersection of Freud’s psychoanalytic theories with twentieth-century Spanish realism.
- Published
- 1993
- Language
- EN
