Collection(s) : La collection des plus belles histoires
Paru le 01/02/2006 | Broché 143 pages
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traduit du français par Jeffrey Grice
Jean Christophe Argillet here confirms Dali's much quoted remark: «The only difference between a madman and me is that I'm not mad!» With these 50 best stories about Salvador Dali, he astonishes with a highly sensitive portrait of the artist.
Dali's provocative media side too often eclipses the intelligence and refinement of the creator himself. Jean Christophe Argillet's anecdotes about Dali's childhood, his creation, his recreation and his entourage, disclose an exceptional personality who disrupted the 20e century and aroused a great deal of controversy.
You'll find them all here, from Luis Buñuel to Gala, from Captain Moore to Picasso, or Paul Eluard... all those close to that most illustrious of surrealists, be they friends or rivals of Dali, the painter, the engraver, the sculptor, the film-maker and, above all, the poet.
Jean Christophe Argillet was born in 1966. Since the publishing activities of his parents led them to have close connections with the painter, he actually grew up in the universe of Salvador Dali. Since the early 1980s, he manages the Furstenberg Gallery in Paris' Latin Quarter, which holds an important collection of the Master's engravings, and also features other artists of the surrealist movement, young painters and sculptors.
