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DIARY OF A GENIUS DIARY OF A GENIUS stands as one of the seminal
texts of Surrealism, revealing the most astonishing and intimate workings
of the mind of Salvador Dalí, the eccentric polymath genius who
became the living embodiment of the 20th century's most intensely subversive,
disturbing and influential art movement. Salvador Dalí (1904–1989) entered the ranks of the Surrealists in 1929 with a series of iconoclastic paintings which fused technical virtuosity with Freudian infantilism, leading to his invention of the “paranoiac-critical” method. Later expelled from the Surrealist Group, he was christened “Avida Dollars” by André Breton whilst acquiring the reputation of master showman and scandalist. His art and writings remain amongst the most unique and important bodies of work of the 20th Century. “Dali’s paintings reveal in the most powerful
form the basic elements of the Surrealist imagination: a series of equations
for dealing with the extraordinary transformations of our age. Let us
salute this unique genius, who has counted for the first time the multiplication
tables of obsession, psychopathology and possibility” “This book will prove that the daily life of a
genius, his sleep, his digestion, his ecstasies, his nails, his colds,
his blood, his life and death are essentially different from those of
the rest of mankind. This book, then, is the first diary written by
a genius.” SOLAR ART DIRECTIVES 1
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