{"product_id":"dali-the-paintings-book-robert-dascharnes-9783822814482","title":"Dali The Paintings","description":"\u003cp\u003eAt the age of six, \u003cstrong\u003e Salvador Dal  \u003c\/strong\u003e(1904-1989) wanted to be a cook. At the age of seven, he wanted to be Napoleon. Since then, he later said, my ambition has steadily grown, and my megalomania with it. Now I want only to be Salvador Dal , I have no greater wish. Throughout his life, Dal  was out to become Dal  that is, \u003cstrong\u003eone of the most significant artists and eccentrics of the 20th century\u003c\/strong\u003e. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e This weighty volume is \u003cstrong\u003ethe most complete study \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eof\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e Dal 's painted works ever published\u003c\/strong\u003e. After years of research, Robert Descharnes and Gilles N ret located painted works by the master that had been inaccessible for years--so many, in fact, that almost half the featured illustrations appear in public for the first time in this book. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e More than a catalogue raisonn , this book \u003cstrong\u003econtextualizes Dal 's oeuvre and its meanings by examining contemporary documents\u003c\/strong\u003e, from writings and drawings to material from other facets of his work, including ballet, cinema, fashion, advertising, and \u003cem\u003eobjets d'art\u003c\/em\u003e. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e The study is divided into two parts: the first examines \u003cstrong\u003eDal 's beginnings as an unknown artist\u003c\/strong\u003e. We witness how the young Dal  deployed all the isms--Impressionism, Pointillism, Cubism, Fauvism, Purism and Futurism--with playful mastery, and how he would borrow from prevailing trends before ridiculing and abandoning them. The second part \u003cstrong\u003eunveils the conclusions of Dal 's lifelong inquiries\u003c\/strong\u003e, as well as the great legacy he left in works such as \u003cem\u003eTuna Fishing\u003c\/em\u003e (1966\/67) or \u003cem\u003eHallucinogenic Toreador\u003c\/em\u003e (1970). It includes \u003cstrong\u003epreviously unpublished homages to Vel zquez or Michelangelo\u003c\/strong\u003e, painted to the same end as the variations on past masters done by his contemporary, Picasso. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e We discover how, motivated by the desire to tease out the secrets of great works and become a Vel zquez of the mid-20th century, Dal  became Dal .","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49619774406929,"sku":"GOR004691230","price":52.6,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":49850478854417,"sku":"CIN3822814482G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ WELL_READ \/ SBYB","offer_id":50106526794001,"sku":"CIN3822814482A","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50205661135121,"sku":"CIN3822814482VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/3822814482.jpg?v=1751064739","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/en-gb\/products\/dali-the-paintings-book-robert-dascharnes-9783822814482","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}