| Description |
xvi, 475 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Pt. I. Under the Sign of Saint Sebastian. 1. Lorcaean Aesthetics, Cubism, and Metaphysical Painting. 2. "Sant Sebastia" and the Proto-Surrealist Paintings of 1927. 3. Words and Images: Freedom and the Perception of Limits. 4. Fear and Desire: The Initial Phase of Dali's "Aesthetics of Repugnance" -- Pt. II. Under the Sign of the Great Masturbator. 5. From Antiart to Surrealism. 6. Dali, Bunuel, and Un Chien andalou. 7. From Un Chien andalou to "The Great Masturbator" 8. "Le Grand masturbateur" and the Paintings of 1929-1930 -- Pt. III. Under the Sign of William Tell. 9. Revolt, Defiance, and Scatological Provocation. 10. "The Omnipotence of Love": Gala vs. William Tell Perversion, Regression, and Pregenital Sexuality. 11. "The Morphological Aesthetics of the Soft and Hard" and the Search for Form. 12. From Symbolic Functioning to "Beings-Objects": Dali and the Surrealist Object -- Pt. IV. Under the Sign of the Angelus. 13. Paranoia-Criticism: Concept and Theory |
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14. From Paranoiac Intuition to Conceptualization: Double and Multiple Images. 15. Paranoiac Mechanisms in The Tragic Myth of Millet's Angelus and in Dali's Shorter Writings -- Pt V. Under the Sign of Narcissus. 16. "The Metamorphosis of Narcissus" and the Dialectics of Fragmentation and Wholeness. 17. "To Become Classic:" Rejection of Earlier Surrealist Attitudes and the Abandonment of Freudian Theory. 18. "I Renounce Nothing: I Continue": Observations on Dali's Art and Writing in the 1940s and After |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 441-449) and index |
| Notes |
Translated from Catalan, Spanish and French |
| Subject |
Dalí, Salvador, 1904-1989 -- Written works.
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Art, Modern -- 20th century.
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Surrealism.
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| Author |
Finkelstein, Haim N., 1940-
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| LC no. |
97043386 |
| ISBN |
0521497477 (hb) |
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0521560276 (hb) |
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