Influential artist's highly opinionated attack skewers both modern art and its practitioners. Outrageous evaluations of Picasso, Turner, Cézanne, many more. Text includes 15 renderings of paintings discussed and 44 of Dalí's calligraphic decorations. Will delight anyone who enjoys the artist's unconventional opinions and egotistical posturing.
50 Secrets of Magic Craftsmanship by Salvador Dalí Sensible artistic advice and lively personal anecdotes in rare important work by famed Surrealist. Filled with Dali's outrageous egotism and unconventional humor, insights into modern art and his own drawings in the margins.
The Secret Life of Salvador Dalí by Salvador Dalí This startling early autobiography takes Dalí through his late 30s and "communicates the...total picture of himself (Dalí) sets out to portray" — Books. Superbly illustrated with over 80 photographs and scores of drawings.
Dali Paintings: 24 Cards by Dali Museum Superb reproductions of surrealist masterpieces: The Basket of Bread, Disappearing Bust of Voltaire, The Disintegration of the Persistence of Memory, 21 more. Introduction. Notes. Captions.
Painters on Painting by Eric Protter Artists such as da Vinci, Michelangelo, Rubens, Rembrandt, Hogarth, Manet, Degas, Cézanne, van Gogh, Matisse, Pollock, Johns, and many others comment on their artistic techniques, objectives, other artists, and more. 68 illustrations.
Modern Artists on Art: Second Enlarged Edition by Robert L. Herbert 16 of the 20th century's leading artistic innovators talk forcefully about their work: Albert Gleizes, Jean Metzinger, Henry Moore, Kurt Schwitters, Max Ernst, El Lissitzky, Fernand Léger, and more.
The New Vision: Fundamentals of Bauhaus Design, Painting, Sculpture, and Architecture by László Moholy-Nagy, Daphne M. Hoffmann This book, a valuable introduction to the Bauhaus movement, is generously illustrated with examples of students' experiments and typical contemporary achievements. The text also contains an autobiographical sketch.
Dalí: 16 Art Stickers by Salvador Dalí Superb reproductions of paintings by one of the 20th century's most famous artists: The Visage of War, The Enigma of Desire, the well-known Persistence of Memory, 13 others.
Six Dali Paintings Cards by Dali Museum Bizarre works from controversial artist, including Enchanted Beach with Three Fluid Graces (1938), Disappearing Bust of Voltaire (1941), 4 more.
Selected Fables of Jean de la Fontaine by Alexander Calder All the imagination, whimsy, and invention that have made Calder's mobiles and stabiles so popular. 36 fables — in rhymed translation by Eunice Clark — with a drawing for each and 12 additional vignettes.
