Author: GALE, MATTHEW (ED.)
Title: Dali and film / edited by Matthew Gale ; special advisors: Dawn Ades, Montse Aguer and Felix Fanes
Description: New York : Museum of Modern Art 2007. First Edition. Salvador Dali was one of the most famous--and one of the most notorious--artists of the twentieth century. recognized as much in the popular imagination for his flamboyant personal style and his penchant for showmanship as for his groundbreaking artworks in many media. Dali & Film investigates. for the first time in depth. the part played by film as a key influence on Dali's art. as well as his extensive involvement in film-based projects. This illuminating volume presents both the major paintings that reflect the artist's famous preoccupation with film and materials related to the key film projects on which he worked.Throughout his long career. cinema contributed to Dali's understanding of both the power and the uses of illusion. In 1929 and 1930 he collaborated with the influential Spanish Surrealist filmmaker Luis Bunuel on the startling and highly controversial films Un Chien andalou and l'Age d'or. Many years later. Dali worked with the Disney studios in Hollywood and with Alfred Hitchcock. devising a dream sequence for the psychological thriller Spellbound that remains one of the most innovative in cinema. Over the intervening years. Dali came to reject what he saw as the elitism of Modernist film. and embrace instead the popularity of mainstream cinema. recognizing its potential to bring his work to a vast audience. Extensively illustrated with reproductions of paintings. film stills. storyboards and photographs of the artist with figures ranging from studio bosses to the Marx Brothers. Dali & Film reveals the depth and persistence of Dali's fascination with the medium. bringing a new dimension to our understanding of one of the great masters of twentieth-century art. Notes: Published on the occasion of an exhibition organized by Tate Modern. London. in collaboration with Fundacio Gala-Salvador Dali. and shown at Tate Modern. London. June 1-Sept. 9. 2007 ; Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Oct. 14. 2007-Jan. 6. 2008 ; Salvador Dali Museum. St. Petersburg. Fla. Feb. 1-June 1. 2008 ; Museum of Modern Art. New York. June 29-Sept. 15. 2008. An exceptional copy; fine in an equally fine dw. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight. bright. clean and especially sharp-cornered. Literally as new and still in the publisher's protective shrink-wrap.; 8vo 8' - 9' tall; 237 pages; Physical desc.: 237 p. : ill. (some col.). ports. ; 29 cm. Subject: Dali. Salvador (1904-1989) --Criticism and interpretation --Art and motion pictures.Weight in Kg appr.:

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