{"product_id":"dali-the-paintings-9783836576246","title":"Dalí. the Paintings","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Robert Descharnes\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Taschen\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Taschen\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Individual Artists - Monographs\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt the age of six, \u003cstrong\u003e Salvador Dalí \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 Dalí, I have no greater wish.\" Throughout his life, Dalí was out to become Dalí that is, \u003cstrong\u003eone of the most significant artists and eccentrics of the 20th century\u003c\/strong\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e This weighty volume is \u003cstrong\u003ethe most complete study \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eof\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e Dalí's painted works ever published\u003c\/strong\u003e. After years of research, Robert Descharnes and Gilles Néret 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e More than a catalogue raisonné, this book \u003cstrong\u003econtextualizes Dalí'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. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The study is divided into two parts: the first examines \u003cstrong\u003eDalí's beginnings as an unknown artist\u003c\/strong\u003e. We witness how the young Dalí 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 Dalí'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 It includes \u003cstrong\u003epreviously unpublished homages to Velázquez or Michelangelo\u003c\/strong\u003e, painted to the same end as the variations on past masters done by his contemporary, Picasso.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e We discover how, motivated by the desire to tease out the secrets of great works and become a Velázquez of the mid-20th century, Dalí became Dalí.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taschen","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":45139780403351,"sku":"9783836576246","price":5466.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9783836576246.webp?v=1767654425","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/dali-the-paintings-9783836576246","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}