Name: The Secret Life of Salvador Dali, Paperback/Salvador Dali
Brand: Dover Publications
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Painter, designer, and filmmaker Salvador Dali (1904-1989) was one of the most colorful and controversial figures in 20th-century art. A pioneer of Surrealism, he was both praised and reviled for the subconscious imagery he projected into his paintings, which he sometimes referred to as ``hand-painted dream photographs.`` This early autobiography, which takes him through his late thirties, is as startling and unpredictable as his art. It is superbly illustrated with over 80 photographs of Dali and his works, and scores of Dali drawings and sketches. On its first publication, the reviewer of Books observed: ``It is impossible not to admire this painter as writer. As a whole, he . . . communicates the snobbishness, self-adoration, comedy, seriousness, fanaticism, in short the concept of life and the total picture of himself he sets out to portray.`` Dali's flamboyant self-portrait begins with his earliest recollections and ends at the pinnacle of his earliest successes. His tantalizing chapter titles and headnotes -- among them ``Intra-Uterine Memories,`` ``Apprenticeship to Glory,`` ``Permanent Expulsion from the School of Fine Arts,`` ``Dandyism and Prison,`` ``I am Disowned by my Family,`` ``My Participation and my Position in the Surrealist Revolution,`` and ``Discovery of the Apparatus for Photographing Thought`` -- only hint at the compelling revelations to come. Here are fascinating glimpses of the brilliant, ambitious, and relentlessly self-promoting artist who designed