La Vie Publique De Salvador Dalí
Condition: SECONDHAND
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**FRENCH TEXT ONLY**
Condition: Good. Jacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good condition. Page Condition: Good; minor nick/tear on fep. Markings: No markings. Binding condition: Firm.
Few artists in the twentieth century courted public life with the calculated theatricality of Salvador Dalí — painter, provocateur, and living embodiment of Surrealism's most untamed impulses. La vie publique de Salvador Dalí chronicles the spectacular self-construction of one of art history's most recognisable figures, presenting the man behind the mythology through a rich assembly of archival photographs, documents, and critical commentary. Published in conjunction with a major retrospective at the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris, this catalogue details the intersection of art, performance, and persona that Dalí orchestrated across decades of relentless public spectacle. More than a conventional exhibition catalogue, this volume argues that Dalí's public life was itself a supreme artistic act — a staged drama inseparable from his canvases, his collaborations, and his controversies. Scholarly yet visually arresting, it presents the surrealist's provocations within the broader cultural currents of European modernism, inviting the reader to reconsider where the art ends and the performance begins.
Author: -
Format: Paperback
Published: 1980, Centre Georges Pompidou
Genre: Biography
Condition remarks:
**FRENCH TEXT ONLY**
Condition: Good. Jacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good condition. Page Condition: Good; minor nick/tear on fep. Markings: No markings. Binding condition: Firm.
Few artists in the twentieth century courted public life with the calculated theatricality of Salvador Dalí — painter, provocateur, and living embodiment of Surrealism's most untamed impulses. La vie publique de Salvador Dalí chronicles the spectacular self-construction of one of art history's most recognisable figures, presenting the man behind the mythology through a rich assembly of archival photographs, documents, and critical commentary. Published in conjunction with a major retrospective at the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris, this catalogue details the intersection of art, performance, and persona that Dalí orchestrated across decades of relentless public spectacle. More than a conventional exhibition catalogue, this volume argues that Dalí's public life was itself a supreme artistic act — a staged drama inseparable from his canvases, his collaborations, and his controversies. Scholarly yet visually arresting, it presents the surrealist's provocations within the broader cultural currents of European modernism, inviting the reader to reconsider where the art ends and the performance begins.