With 101 Life magazine covers to his credit, Philippe Halsman (1906-1979) was one of the leading portrait photographers of his time. In addition to his distinguished career in photojournalism, Halsman was one of the great pioneers of experimental......

This work is a new edition of a classic. \"Diary of a Genius\" stands as one of the seminal texts of Surrealism, revealing the most astonishing and intimate workings of the mind of Salvador Dali, the eccentric polymath genius who became the living embodiment of the 20th century\'s most intensely subversive, disturbing and influential art movement....

Book DescriptionCultural Writing. Art Criticism. \"Pleasure is man\'s most legitimate aspiration.\" (\'The Moral Position of Surrealism\"). This book is a translation of the first volume of Oui- a collection of texts compiled and edited by Salvador Dali\'s great chronicler, colleague and friend, Robert Descharnes....

Man of many moustaches, of critical paranoia, of flies and ants, body parts held up by crutches, desert scapes windswept by perverse oases, melting clocks and faces, floating pomegranates, ever evolving metamorphoses. How ever to explain it all? How ever to explain Salvador DalA­?...

Book Description “Let us agree,” Federico Garcia Lorca wrote, “that one of man’s most beautiful postures is that of St. Sebastian.” “In my ‘Saint Sebastian’ I remember you,” Salvador Dali replied to Garcia Lorca, referring to the essay on aesthetics that Dali had just written, “. . . and sometimes I think he is you....