Dali and Film

London: Tate Publishing, 2007. Very Good condition in a bright and shiny Very Good dust jacket. NOT price clipped (£40.00). NOT a library discard. NO owner's name or bookplate. Pages are clean and unmarked. Mild corner bumps to the cover, but NO pages are affected (i.e. there are NO page creases). Illustrations throughout, many in beautiful full color. Bound in the original black boards, stamped in shiny silver. From the dust jacket: "Salvador Dali was one of the most famous and also one of the most notorious artists of the twentieth century, his flamboyant personal style establishing him as a showman in the popular imagination. DALI AND FILM investigates for the first time in depth the part played by film as a key influence on Dali's art, and his extensive involvement in film-based projects. DALI AND FILM presents both the major paintings that reflect his preoccupation with film and material related to the key film projects on which he worked. Cinema contributed to Dali's understanding of both the power and the uses of illusion. In 1929 and 1930 he collaborated with Luis Bunuel on the startling and highly controversial films, UN CHIEN ANDALOU and L'AGE D'OR. Many years later, Dali worked with the Disney studios in Hollywood and with Alfred Hitchcock, devising a dream sequence for the psychological thriller SPELLBOUND that remains one of the most innovative in cinema. Over the intervening years, Dali had come to reject the implicit elitism of modernist film and embrace instead the popularity of mainstream cinema, recognising its potential to bring his work to a vast audience. Extensively illustrtated with repoductions of paintings, film-stills, story boards and photographs of the artist… DALI AND FILM reveals the depth and persistence of Dali's fascination with the medium, bringing a new dimension to our understanding of one of the great masters of twentieth-century art." Oversize Hardcover. 10" wide by 11.75" tall. This large heavy book will require extra postage for Priority and International shipments, but only the standard charge for media mail.. First Edition. Oversize Hardcover. Very Good condition/Very Good dust jacket. Illus. by Dali, Salvador. 240pp. Great Packaging, Fast Shipping.