The shameful life of Salvador Dal - Ian Gibson

Drawing on extensive original research and
recently discovered sources, Ian Gibson presents a daringly original portrait of one of this
century's most celebrated-and
infamous-artists. He provides a full
narrative of Dal's life as artist and as
uninhibited exhibitionist, from his wild and
troubled youth through his often rollickingly
funny adventures in Paris, New York, and
Hollywood to his poignant last years. Here is
Dal fully revealed through his voluminous
correspondence; his novel, poems, and essays;
and interviews with some of those closest to
him. The Shameful Life of Salvador Dal
reexamines the roles of the two most important
individuals in the artist's life: the Spanish
playwright and author Federico Garca Lorca and the enigmatic, libidinous Gala, the Russian
migr whose marriage Dal broke
up and with whom he subsequently lived in
unconsummated bliss and terror. This is a truly
incandescent life of the surrealist artist who
caught the imagination of the twentieth century.