Salvador Dalí's Dream of Venus : the surrealist funhouse from the 1939 World's Fair / Ingrid Schaffner ; photographs by Eric Schaal.

Main entry:

Schaffner, Ingrid.

Title & Author:

Salvador Dalí's Dream of Venus : the surrealist funhouse from the 1939 World's Fair / Ingrid Schaffner ; photographs by Eric Schaal.

Publication:

Description:

159 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 32 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 154-159).
Walking the dream -- Locating the dream -- Plotting the dream -- Finding the dream -- Funding the dream -- Dal-̕niating the dream -- Censoring the dream -- Realizing the dream -- Unveiling the dream -- Repressing the dream -- Analyzing the dream -- Performing the dream -- Ending the dream.

Summary:

"Life magazine wrote that one funhouse at the 1939 New York World's Fair stood out among the others: Salvador Dali's Dream of Venus." "The building's modern expressionist exterior, with an entrance framed by a woman's legs, and shocking interior, including the bare-breasted "living liquid ladies" who swam inside the tanks, was a controversial sensation. The funhouse was so successful that it reopened for a second season after the fair closed. But once torn down it faded from memory, and its outlandishness became the stuff of urban myth. Now, more than sixty years later, a collection of Dream of Venus images by noted photographer Eric Schaal has been discovered and presented here in its depth and beauty. In stunning black-and-white and early Kodachrome, the photographs show both the construction and the completion of the funhouse - from Dali painting a melting clock to showgirls parading for their audience. Salvador Dali's Dream of Venus reveals not only a mind-boggling work of architecture, but also a unique creation by one of the most fertile imaginations of the twentieth century."--Jacket.

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Publisher description

ISBN:

156898359X (alk. paper)
9781568983592 (alk. paper)

Subject:

Dalí, Salvador, 1904-1989. Dream of Venus.
Dalí, Salvador, 1904-1989 Criticism and interpretation.
Schaal, Eric.
Dalí, Salvador, 1904- Dream of Venus.
Dalí, Salvador, 1904- Criticism and interpretation.
Dalí, Salvador, 1904-1989
Venus Göttin
Dalí, Salvador 1904-1989
Dalí, Salvador 1904-1989 Dream of Venus
Dalí, Salvador. Dream of Venus.
New York World's Fair (1939-1940 : New York, N.Y.)
World's Fair (1939-1940 : New York, N.Y.).
New York World's Fair
Dream of Venus (Dalí, Salvador)
Installations (Art) New York (State) New York.
Surrealism Exhibitions.
Installations (Art) New York (État) New York.
Surréalisme Expositions.
Installations (Art)
Surrealism
Kunst
New York (State) New York

Form/genre:

Nonfiction.
exhibition catalogs.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Exhibition catalogs
Books.
Catalogues d'exposition.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 225296
Call No.: ND37.D143 S3 2002
Status: Available

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