Dali, edited by David Larkin

Dali, edited by David Larkin. 1974 first printing softcover.96 pages, very nice condition.

An excellent book of and about Dali’s art, with an introduction by J.G. Ballard. Salvador Dali is the most outstanding personality in the history of surrealist painting. His precocious brilliance revealed itself when he was an art student, and his powerful and extravagant imagination soon established him as one of the most original of the surrealist painters. For almost half a century, Dali dominated surrealism, as a result of his highly developed talents for self-advertisement. Few great artists of the 20th century have so exposed themselves to the glare of publicity, yet the real meanings and aims of Dali’s art remain concealed and misunderstood. To many people he is a master of the lurid and bizarre, while to others the photographic realism of his exquisitely finished style gives his paintings the disturbing conviction of a waking nightmare.