Tiny surrealism : Salvador Dalí and the aesthetics of the small /

Although one of the most popular artists of the twentieth century, Salvador Dali, has typically been considered no more than peripheral to the dominant practices of modernism. Roger Rothman's Tiny Surrealism argues that this marginal position itself should be examined as a coherent response to...

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Main Author: Rothman, Roger
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Lincoln, Nebraska : University of Nebraska Press, [2012]
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