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Salvador Dalí (1904–1989) was a renowned and controversial 20th-century artist. Over his prolific sixty-year career, he created 1,200 oil paintings, numerous drawings, sculptures, and writings. Critics generally agree that his work peaked in the early 1930s during his time with the Surrealist movement. However, much of his output after 1940 is often viewed as repetitive and overly commercialized, largely due to his 1941 shift toward classicism, embrace of Catholicism, and support for General Franco, which distanced him from modernist ideals. This illustrated volume examines Dalí's post-1940 work, presenting it as a complex body of art influenced by both Old Masters and contemporary themes. It begins with his transition from Surrealism to classicism in the late 1930s and explores his ventures into illustration, fashion, and theatre, predating the commercial success of artists like Andy Warhol. Essays delve into Dalí’s “nuclear mysticism” of the 1950s, his fascination with science and optical effects, and his collaborations with photographer Philippe Halsman, as well as his brief engagements in Hollywood with figures like Alfred Hitchcock and Walt Disney. The volume also highlights the Dalí Theatre-Museum in Figueres and the Salvador Dalí Museum in St. Petersburg as key repositories of his work.

For the first time, this book—authorized by the Gala-Salvador Dalí Foundation—provides a visual history of Dalí’s entire career, illustrated with previously unpublished personal photographs, sketchbooks, drawings, letters, posters, and commercial designs, many of them drawn from the archives at the Gala-Salvador Dalí Foundation.The photographs in particular offer key insights into the artist’s career; in them we see Dalí as a child, in his studio, with his inseparable wife and muse Gala, and traveling the world and fraternizing with celebrities including Harpo Marx, Walt Disney, Sidney Poitier, Andy Warhol, Gregory Peck, Alice Cooper, and Robert Kennedy. The inclusion of numerous designs for handbills and exhibition posters as well as magazine covers and book jackets suggests the scale of Dalí’s prolific output beyond the gallery walls. Also included are reproductions of his most famous works.EXHIBITION Tate Modern, London, June 1–September 9, 2007LACMA, Los Angeles, October 21–January 20, 2008Salvador Dali Museum, St Petersburg, Florida, February 24–May 21, 2008MoMA, New York, 29 June–15 Sept 2008

Dalí conceived his Theatre-Museum as a building full of surprises and special effects. This guide shows us the secrets of the artist’s last grand creation, providing us with the clues and keys to gain access to his personal world, imaginative and full of touches of humour.

Dalí concibió su Teatro-Museo cómo un edificio lleno de sorpresas y golpes de efecto. Esta guía nos muestra los secretos de la última gran creación del artista, facilitándonos las pistas y las claves para acceder a su mundo personal, imaginativo y lleno de toques de humor.