Salvador Dali - Warping Time Extra Long

The Clock provides a framework for this book. The book in turn aims, as a by-product, to provide a framework for the actual Clock. Though the chapters are written in logical sequence, they do not attempt a sequential and conclusive argument. They are a mosaic; many are quite short, some differ in situational voice (a fictional speech, a genuine paper). Each of the chapters is a different kind of probe, a separate essay. The overall intent is exploratory rather than convergent. These are early days...

Turning away from the powerful Cubist influence of his fellow Spaniard, Picasso, Salvador Dali embraced the hallucinatory qualities of Surrealism to become one of the 20th century's most famous artists. The melting clocks of Dali's Persistence of Memory, for example, rank among the most recognizable images in modern art. That well-known work appears here in sticker format, along with meticulous reproductions of 15 other popular paintings by Dali: The Visage of War, Figure at a Window, The Enigma...

This early autobiography, which takes Dali through his late thirties, is as startling and unpredictable as his art. On its first publication, the reviewer of Books observed: "It is impossible not to admire this painter as writer ... (Dali) succeeds in doing exactly what he sets out to do ... communicates the snobbishness, self-adoration, comedy, seriousness, fanaticism, in short the concept of life and the total picture of himself he sets out to portray." Superbly illustrated with over eighty photographs...