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Dal Freud An Obsession" BOOK

Details... In 1938, Salvador Dal travelled to the London home of Sigmund Freud, who had just arrived in the UK after escaping Nazi-occupied Vienna. Dal brought with him a painting and a magazine article he had written on paranoia. This famous encounter of two legends is the basis of this beautiful volume, bound in imitation red leather and featuring foldout plates of Dals work. The title explores how the Surrealist was inspired by and used Freuds theories to generate his compositions. This emissary of Surrealism had long hoped to meet Freud; he had read translations of Freuds writings since the early 1920s and had studied them extensively. He asked their mutual friend, the Austrian author Stefan Zweig, to arrange the meeting. A great variety of Dals oeuvre is surveyed in this book, including his paintings, sculptures, photographs, films, books, magazines, letters and other documents. In addition, this volume explores his encounters with other artists, such as Federico Garca Lorca, Luis Buuel and Santiago Ramn y Cajal. "Dal - Freud: An Obsession" also crucially examines how psychoanalysis helped Dal process his complex childhood and use it in his paintings. Hard Back. 332 pages. 24x17cm