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Title: The Secret Life of Salvador Dali by Salvador Dali, Haakon M. Chevalier ISBN: 0-486-27454-3 Publisher: Dover Publications Pub. Date: 01 March, 1993 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.17 (6 reviews)
Rating: 1
Summary: A mess
Comment: This is not Dali revealing honestly about himself, his work, his life: This is 400 pages of Dali promoting Dali, being Daliesc: which means shocking people. This book covers a time period from his birth to the outbreak of World War II, at which time he was mostly known for being a shocking surrealist, not necessarily as a great painter yet. The book is used more to promote himself to the public at that time in his style of the time (shocking, unexpected, deviant) rather than reveal the secrets of his work and style. Heavy heavy influence of Freud and psychoanalysis; the text becomes so introverted and self-analytical that it is almost unreadable much of the time. There is a 4 page discussion of a piece of mucus on a bathroom wall; one page about the painting The Persistence of Memory. Somewhere along the first or second chapter you learn something about how his style developed, in the rest of the book you learn that he has a huge ego and a nasty cruel streak, to the point where you really start to dislike him as a human. I have been to the Dali museum in Tampa, seen his works in other museums: He is a genius of a painter. This book is a waste of time unless you are truly truly die-hard. The reviewer who thought it was a comedy and laughed at every page has serious issues.
Rating: 5
Summary: Funniest Book Ever
Comment: This book, without a doubt, is the most hysterically funny thing I have ever read. Dali is some kind of weird comic genius, and I am not exaggerating when I say that I laughed out loud on every page. Whatever you think of Dali's art--and I've never thought much of it myself--this book is a guaranteed laugh riot.
Rating: 5
Summary: Dali Grasps More Than His Own "Secret Life"
Comment: Salvador Dali is a genius, and even though I really do think that it is redundant to say genius and Salvador Dali in the same sentence, it serves it's purpose. This book, so intimitely perverse yet, cunningly understandable sets an example for man kind at it's best. Who has ever dreamed of conducting their own experiments based off of their wildest dreams? Or plunged off of a stair case to give the example of anti-limitation? How about searching their entire life for their one true love, ignoring all possibilities of just a fling or a relationship without meaning. Everything has meaning to Dali, and he brings that meaning to real life. I know that I have always wanted to explore my wildest dreams in actuality, and this book gives me the power to overcome what other people think. Salvador realises that what others think is important, but he knows that their thoughts and actions, when based upon his own unpredictablity makes a hell of a show for the audience within. Through this book you will learn to think outside the box and everything for one instant will make sense in your mind. Or you could read it without knowing what you are getting into exactly and become the most disgusted person on Earth. That doesn't matter though... all that you have to do is comprehend, and he will help you with that.
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Title: Diary of a Genius by Salvador Dali ISBN: 1871592763 Publisher: Creation Books Pub. Date: 01 May, 1998 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: 50 Secrets of Magic Craftmanship by Salvador Dali, Haakon Chevalier ISBN: 0486271323 Publisher: Dover Publications Pub. Date: 01 June, 1992 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: The Shameful Life of Salvador Dali by Ian Gibson ISBN: 0393046249 Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: 01 November, 1998 List Price(USD): $45.00 |
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Title: Dali: The Paintings by Gilles Neret, Robert Descharnes ISBN: 3822812099 Publisher: Taschen Pub. Date: 01 October, 2001 List Price(USD): $40.00 |
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Title: Dali (Mallard Fine Art Series) by Paul Moorhouse, Salvador Dali ISBN: 0792453263 Publisher: Thunder Bay Press (CA) Pub. Date: 01 August, 1995 List Price(USD): $15.98 |
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