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Tiny Surrealism - Salvador Dalí and the Aesthetics of the Small (Paperback)
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Tiny Surrealism - Salvador Dalí and the Aesthetics of the Small (Paperback)
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Though one of the most popular artists of the twentieth century,
Salvador Dalí is typically seen as peripheral to the dominant
practices of modernist painting. Roger Rothman’s Tiny Surrealism
argues that this marginal position is itself a coherent response to
modernism. It demonstrates how Dalí’s practice was organized
around the logic of the inconsequential by focusing on Dalí’s
identification with things that are literally tiny (ants, sewing
needles, breadcrumbs, blackheads, etc.) as well as those that are
metaphorically small (the trivial, the weak, the superficial, and
the anachronistic). In addition to addressing the imagery of
Dalí’s paintings, Tiny Surrealism demonstrates that the logic of
the small was a fundamental factor in Dalí’s adherence to the
techniques of miniaturist illusionism. Long derided as
antimodernist and kitsch, Rothman demonstrates that Dalí’s style
was itself a strategy of the small aimed at subverting the dominant
values of modern painting. Tiny Surrealism not only examines
Dalí’s pictorial work, it also probes the artist’s many public
pronouncements and private correspondences. By attending to the
peculiarities of Dalí’s technique and examining overlooked
aspects of his writings, Tiny Surrealism is the first study to
detail his deliberate subversion of modernist orthodoxies.
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