Amanda Lear - Persistence of Memory: A Personal Biography of Salvador

Amanda Lear - Persistence of Memory: A Personal Biography of Salvador Dali
National Press,1987
270 str.
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Surrealist painter, author, filmmaker, lecturer, performance artist, charlatan, genius, clown, Salvador Dali (1904--1989) once asked himself, "Where does the deep and philosophical Dali begin, and where does the loony and preposterous Dali end?" This evenhanded but exacting biography, based on interviews, unpublished letters, and previously unavailable archives, explores the relationship between his eccentric life and the hallucinatory imagery of the paintings that, like the soft watches, have become twentieth-century icons. The author penetrates the artist's self-mythologizing facade to reveal the man behind the outrageous mustache and cryptic canvasses: his Catalan childhood; his relationships with Garcia Lorca, Bunuel, Breton, Picasso, Miro, de Chirico, Man Ray, Ernst, and Eluard; Dali's fixations, phobias, and Surrealist pranks; and his bizarre marriage to Gala--muse, business manager, nymphomaniac, gold digger, and finally tormentor. With reproductions of sixteen Dali paintings, The Persistence of Memory offers an unrivaled tour of the absurd and haunting landscape of Dali's life.

It was 1965, in the era of flower children, peace movements and psychedelic music, when the aging genius, Salvador Dali, first met Amanda Lear. She remained Dali's close companion and confidante for fifteen years, accompanying him on his trips across Europe and to New York, spending every summer with him and Gala, Dali's wife, at their home in Cadaques.
Amanda Lear portrays the real Dali as no one else can. She was his model, his best friend, his imaginary lover and, as The London Times writes, "the nearest he came to a child of his own." He told Amanda his theories about people and about art. "Talent," he said when she revealed her own secret wish to be an artist, "is in the balls." Despite his often shocking beliefs, she always remained loyal.
After publication in Britain the critics applauded Persistence of Memory: A Personal Biography of Salvador Dali:
The Face acclaims the book as Amanda Lear's "voyage to self-discovery through the madness of the Sixties."
"A compulsive read," says the New Musical Express: "Amanda Lear...has...crashed through prejudice and supposition to produce a worthwhile work."

Amanda Lear is a French singer, lyricist, composer, painter, TV presenter, actress and novelist.


Nonfiction,  0915765403

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