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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.

This is a new release of the original 1948 edition.

"Dali's themes and philosophical reflections are illustrated in a chronological collection of his cosmic paintings"--Amazon.com description.

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.

"Maniac Eyeball" contains the frank and uncensored confessions of Salvador Dalí, from his childhood and first adolescent sexual experiences to his emergence as a painter, Surrealist, and eventually the most famous - and possibly richest -artist of modern times. These inspired tracts, covering art, love, money, sex and death, fame, philosophy, science, his famous friends and enemies, and his extraordinary creative genius, reveal the intricate workings of Dalí's mind to create not only an unparalleled autobiography but also one of the key Surrealist texts yet published. This special ebook edition contains colour illustrations.

Turning away from the powerful Cubist influence of fellow painter Pablo Picasso, Salvador Dali incorporated the hallucinatory qualities of Surrealism in his paintings and went on to become one of the 20th century's most famous artists. The melting clocks in his "Persistence of Memory" are among the most recognizable images in modern art. That well-known work appears here in sticker format along with 15 other scrupulously reproduced works by the Spanish artist, among them" The Visage of War, Figure at a Window, The Enigma of Desire, "and" Surrealist Poster. "Original Dover (2000) publication."