Salvador Dali: 5 books

By 1970, artist Salvador Dali had transcended his own past to reinvent himself as the "Divine Dali" - the living embodiment of Surrealism, a master showman, eccentric world traveller, and accumulator of increasingly vast amounts of wealth. One of Dali's favoured haunts at this time was the Hotel Meurice...

Maniac Eyeball contains the frank and uncensored confessions of Salvador Dalí, from his childhood and first adolescent sexual experiences to his emergence as a painter, Surrealist, and eventually the most famous - and possibly richest -artist of modern times. These inspired tracts, covering art,...

First published in 1931, Salvador Dalí's REVERIE is an extended, ritualistic masturbatory fantasy focusing on Dulita, a mythic girl-figure of his childhood. With unwavering hallucinatory power Dalí describes how Dulita is seduced and finally violated in the cow stables of an old castle,...

Painter, designer, and filmmaker Salvador Dalí (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...

For many, Salvador Dalí (1904–1989) represents the Surrealist painter par excellence, one whose work explored his own dream life, hallucinations, and fetishes in the process of objectifying the irrational elements of the unconscious. In this rare and important volume, the painter expresses (in...