Salvador Dalí, or the Art of Spitting on Your Mother's Portrait

Among the many written on or by Salvador Dali, this is the first to give a complete, well-documented picture of his life and art. Carlos Rojas's approach to Dali is somewhere between biography, Freudian analysis, and art and literary interpretation.

About the author

Carlos Rojas is Charles Howard Candler Professor of Spanish Literature at Emory University and author of several books including El mundo mítico y mágico de Salvador Dalí (1985).

Summary

This is a picture of Dali's life and art, with an approach somewhere between biography, Freudian analysis, and art and literary interpretation. Dali is shown as haunted by the devouring phantom of his mother, the praying mantis on whose portrait he would like to spit.

Product details

• Authors: Carlos Rojas, Rojas Carlos
• Assisted by: Alma Amell (Translation)
• Publisher: University Presses
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 09.03.1993
• EAN: 9780271008424
• ISBN: 978-0-271-00842-4
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 14 mm
• Weight: 540 g
• Illustrations: Raster,schwarz-weiss
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Plastic arts; Biography: general, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / General, ART / Individual Artists / Monographs, Painting & paintings, Individual artists, art monographs, Paintings and painting