Dali .:. The Salvador Dali Museum Collection

Lubar, Robert S. [Introd.],
Dali. The Salvador Dali Museum Collection. Boston [u,a,]: Little, Brown and Co, 1997. 184 pages with illustrations. Paperback. 4to oblong. 840 g

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* A Bulfinch press book. - Foreword by A. Reynolds Morse. - Schwache Gebrauchsspuren, Umschlag schwach lichtrandig und fleckig, hinten leichte Knickspur und Leimreste auf dem Barcode.
Bestell-Nr.155201 | ISBN: 0-8212-2086-1

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Dali | Malerei | Salvador Dali | Surrealismus

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Salvador Dali: the name evokes a thousand images, from melting clocks and fragmented nudes to lurid skulls and enigmatic landscapes. Dali was a glittering, controversial, and continually productive figure in the art world for most of the twentieth century, one whose work unsettled and always challenged Modernism, Surrealism, and the institution of art as a whole.

This book presents the Morse Collection of the Salvador Dali Museum, a collection of more than 150 oil paintings, drawings, and watercolors, giving a comprehensive overview of Dali's career. A. Reynolds Morse and his wife, Eleanor, met regularly with Salvador Dali and his wife, Gala, for private viewings of his art. They bought Dali's thencurrent work and also sought out paintings and drawings from his earlier years. The resulting collection stands as a lasting testimony to their persistent faith in Dali's genius and to the breadth and depth of Dali's work.

In his erudite introduction, Professor Robert S. Lubar places the Morse Collection within the context of the development of Dali's career. Examining specific paintings, he unfurls the collection's full challenge to traditional understandings of Dali and emphasizes the ways in which Dali repeatedly insisted that "looking is a way of inventing!' As Lubar writes, the Morse Collection gives us "access to the wide range of [Dali's] activities as both a painter and a theorist!' These pages offer a breathtaking examination of a major twentiethcentury artist.

A. Reynolds and Eleanor Morse both hold Ph.D.'s from Rollins College, in Florida, and are among the few Americans to be awarded the Order of Isabella the Catholic, by the king of Spain. Mr. Morse has written more than fifteen books about Salvador Dali, and Mrs. Morse has translated most of Dali's last works from French and Spanish into English.

Robert S. Lubar received his Ph.D. from New York University, Institute of Fine Arts, and has written extensively on twentieth-century European and American art. He was a Robert Lehman Fellow at the Institute of Fine Arts, a Theodore Rousseau Fellow at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and recipient of a Fulbright-Hays Fellowship. Currently a professor at the Institute of Fine Arts in New York City, he has also taught at Princeton University and the University of Delaware.

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124 color and 39 blackandwhite illustrations Cover illustration: The Discovery of America by Christopher Columbus, 1958-1959
Cover design by Wondriska Associates

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