Table of Contents

Introduction; Dali's Introduction to Art; The Dali Family; Anna Maria Dali; The Landscape; Studies in Madrid; Avant-garde Influences; The Artist in Barcelona; The Surrealist Movement; Dali the Writer; Freud; Invisibles and Double Images; Dali and Film; The Muse Gala; Dalinian Symbols; Surrealist Objects; Expulsion from the Surrealist Group; Dali in the USA; Dali as a Scene Painter; Dali as an Illustrator; Mystical and Religious Paintings; Galatea and the Spheres; Leda Atomica; Dali's Jewels; Portraits; Dali's Theatre-Museum; Portilligat-Cadaques; Pubol Castle; Dali and Science; The Last Pictures; Dali in Photographs; Dali's Legacy.

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Containing some rarely and previously unpublished works, Dali's World culminates in an examination of the legacy that Dali has left behind and how successive artists have been influenced by him.

About the Author

Montse Aguer is the Director of the Centre for Dalinian Studies at the Gala-Salvador Dali Foundation and an authority on Salvador Dali. is the commissioner/curator of numerous exhibitions of Salvador Dali's work around the world, in such places as Taipei, Shanghai, Sweden, Athens, Spain, the USA, Italy and the UK. She lives in Spain.