Occult and Esoterica
[DALI, Salvador] Dali on Modern Art. The Cuckolds of Antiquated Modern Art (1957)
[DALI, Salvador] Dali on Modern Art. The Cuckolds of Antiquated Modern Art (1957)
Translated by Hakon Chevalier
New York: The Dial Press, 1957. No edition stated. Hardcover. 8vo. First half of book in English, second half in French (on different colored paper). 157pp. Black and white illustrations including 57 calligraphic devices by Dali. Rubbing and edgewear to boards. Dust jacket is price-clipped and has darkened spine, rear of jacket is rubbed and shows some scrapes and surface loss. Still a very good copy in a good to very good jacket.
"Nothing has ever aged more rapidly and more poorly than modern art." Dali holds nothing back here as he tells the reader what is wrong with modern art, its artists, and its critics. Nobody escapes. "The critics have been cuckolded by the ugly, the modern, the technical and the abstract." Dali shares critical evaluations of Picasso, Cezanne, Turner, Pollock and others. On Jackson Pollack's work: "The indigestion that goes with fish soup." Quite the entertaining read.