Salvador Dalí's Art and Writing, 1927-1942 by Finkelstein, Haim;

The Metamorphosis of Narcissus

Series: Res Monographs in Anthropology and Aesthetics;

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Edition number New ed
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Date of Publication 28 February 1998

ISBN 9780521639255
Binding Paperback
No. of pages354 pages
Size 256x206x21 mm
Weight 700 g
Language English
Illustrations 83 b/w illus.

Short description:

A study of the interaction between Dal&&&237;'s art and writing, first published in 1996.

Long description:

This book examines the evolution of Dal&&&237;'s art during the 1920s and 1930s when he was associated first with the Catalan avant-garde and then with the Surrealist group in Paris. During this period, Dal&&&237;'s painting style changed radically, a phenomenon which has never been fully accounted for in the extensive literature on this subject. Haim Finkelstein demonstrates that Dal&&&237;'s writing, in which he explicated theoretical systems such as Paranoia-Criticism and other ideas adopted from Freud, were important for the active and critical role that they played in his development as an artist and often controversial figure. His 1996 study examines these writings in detail as the foundation for the evolution of Dal&&&237;'s unique artistic vision.

'... certainly one of the better books on Dal&&&237; I have encountered ... the text is an excellent exposition of what was within Dal&&&237;'s horizon of expectations almost moment by moment. In this respect, the book is exemplary, going well beyond the tendency towards generalisation apparent in almost every other book-length work on the artist.' British Journal of Aesthetics

Part I. Under the Sign of Saint Sebastian: 1. Lorcaean aesthetics, Cubism, and metaphysical painting stylistic developments until 1926; 2. Saint Sebasti... and the proto-surrealist paintings of 1927; 3. Words and images - freedom and the perception of limits; 4. Fear and desire - the initial phase of Dal&&&237;'s Aesthetics of Repugnance; Part II. Under the Sign of the Great Masturbator: 5. From anti-art to surrealism; 6. Dal&&&237;, Bu&&&241;uel and Un Chien andalou; 7. From Un Chien andalou to The Great Masturbator; 8. Le Grand Masturbateur and the paintings of 1929-30; Part III. Under the Sign of William Tell: 9. Revolt, defiance, and scatological provocation; 10. The omnipotence of love - Gala vs. William Tell; 11. The morphological aesthetics of the soft and hard and the search for form; 12. From symbolic functioning to 'Beings-Objects' - Dal&&&237; and the surrealist object; Part IV. Under the Sign of the Angelus: 13. Paranoia-criticism - concept and theory; 14. From paranoiac intuition to conceptualization - double and multiple images; 15. Paranoiac mechanisms in The Tragic Myth of Millet's Angelus and in Dal&&&237;'s shorter writings; Part V. Under the Sign of Narcissus: 16. The metamorphosis of Narcissus and the dialectics of fragmentation and wholeness; 17. To become Classic - rejection of earlier surrealist attitudes and the abandonment of Freudian theory; 18. I Renounce Nothing: I Continue - observations on Dali's art and writing in the 1940s and after; Notes; Select bibliography; Index.

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