Dali - 25 Author:Gilles Neret A genius with a right to indulge in whatever lunacy popped into his head — Picasso called Dal� "an outboard motor that's always running." Dal� thought himself a genius with a right to indulge in whatever lunacy popped into his head. — Painter, sculptor, writer and film maker, Salvador Dal� (1904 - 1989) was one of the century's greatest exhibi... more »tionists and eccentrics - and was rewarded with fierce controversy wherever he went. He was one of the first to apply the insights of Sigmund Freud and psychoanalysis to the art of painting. Dal� brought extraordinary sensitivity, imagination and concern for precision to bear upon submerged levels of consciousness.
This lively biography presents the infamous Surrealist Dal� in full colour and in his own words. His provocative ideas are all here, from the soft watches to the notorious burning giraffe. And the fantastic phenomenon that was Salvador Dal� is grasped entire and placed in his various contexts.« less