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Sebastian's Arrows: Letters and Mementos of Salvador Dali and Federico Garcia Lorca
Salvador Dali
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Description for Sebastian's Arrows: Letters and Mementos of Salvador Dali and Federico Garcia Lorca
Hardcover. The volume chronicles how in their poetic skirmishes they sharpened and shaped each other's work - Garcia Lorca defending his verses of absence and elegy and his love of tradition while Dali argued for his theories of "Clarity" and "Holy Objectivity" and the unsettling logic of Surrealism. Editor(s): Maurer, Christopher. Translator(s): Maurer, Christopher. Num Pages: 220 pages, 24 color plates. BIC Classification: 2ADS; ACXD7; AFC; AGB; BJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 161 x 235 x 25. Weight in Grams: 538.
"Let us agree," Federico Garcia Lorca wrote, "that one of man's most beautiful postures is that of St. Sebastian." "In my 'Saint Sebastian' I remember you," Salvador Dali replied to Garcia Lorca, referring to the essay on aesthetics that Dali had just written, "and sometimes I think he is you. Let's see whether Saint Sebastian turns out to be you." This lively and intense exchange is but a glimpse into the complex relationship between two renowned and highly influential twentieth-century artists. On the centennial of Dali's birth, Sebastian's Arrows presents a never-before-published collection of their letters, lectures, and mementos. Written ... Read more
"Let us agree," Federico Garcia Lorca wrote, "that one of man's most beautiful postures is that of St. Sebastian." "In my 'Saint Sebastian' I remember you," Salvador Dali replied to Garcia Lorca, referring to the essay on aesthetics that Dali had just written, "and sometimes I think he is you. Let's see whether Saint Sebastian turns out to be you." This lively and intense exchange is but a glimpse into the complex relationship between two renowned and highly influential twentieth-century artists. On the centennial of Dali's birth, Sebastian's Arrows presents a never-before-published collection of their letters, lectures, and mementos. Written ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Swan Isle Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
248
Place of Publication
Chicago, United States
ISBN
9780967880884
SKU
V9780967880884
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About Salvador Dali
Christopher Maurer, a professor of Spanish literature, is the editor of Garcia Lorca's Collected Poems, the author of Fortune's Favorite Child: The Uneasy Life of Walter Anderson, and has published extensively on sixteenth-, seventeenth-, and twentieth-century Spanish poetry.
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