Description: "Let us agree," Federico Garcia Lorca wrote, "that one of man's most beautiful postures is that of St. Sebastian.""In my 'Saint Sebastian' I remember you," Salvador Dali replied to Garcia Lorca, referring to the essay on aesthetics that Dali had just written, ". . . and sometimes I think he is you. Let's see whether Saint Sebastian turns out to be you."This exchange is but a glimpse into the complex relationship between two renowned and highly influential twentieth-century artists. On the centennial of Dali's birth, Sebastian's Arrows presents a never-before-published collection of their letters, lectures, and mementos.Written between 1925 and 1936, the letters and lectures bring to life a passionate friendship marked by a thoughtful dialogue on aesthetics and the constant interaction between poetry and painting. From their student days in Madrid's Residencia de Estudiantes, where the two waged war against cultural "putrefaction" and mocked the sacred cows of Spanish art, Dali and Garcia Lorca exchanged thoughts on the act of creation, modernity, and the meaning of their art. The volume chronicles how in their poetic skirmishes they sharpened and shaped each other's work-Garcia Lorca defending his verses of absence and elegy and his love of tradition while Dali argued for his theories of "Clarity" and "Holy Objectivity" and the unsettling logic of Surrealism. Christopher Maurer's masterful prologue and selection of letters, texts, and images (many generously provided by the Fundacion Gala-Salvador Dali and Fundacion Federico Garcia Lorca), offer compelling and intimate insights into the lives and work of two iconic artists. The two men had a "tragic, passionate relationship," Dali once wrote-a friendship pierced by the arrows of Saint Sebastian.
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EAN: 9780967880884
UPC: 9780967880884
ISBN: 9780967880884
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Book Title: Sebastian's Arrows : Letters and Mementos of Salvador Dali and Federico Garcia Lorca
Number of Pages: 248 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Swan Isle Press
Item Height: 0.1 in
Publication Year: 2005
Topic: Individual Artists / General, European / Spanish & Portuguese, Letters, General, Artists, Architects, Photographers
Illustrator: Yes
Genre: Literary Criticism, Art, Biography & Autobiography, Literary Collections
Item Weight: 18.9 Oz
Item Length: 0.9 in
Author: Federico García Lorca, Salvador Dali
Item Width: 0.6 in
Format: Hardcover
