中文简介：

尽管萨尔瓦多·达利（Salvador Dalí）特有的挑衅行为和怪异的绘画语言使他成为上流社会的异类，但他的作品反映了他那个时代重要的创新和关注。本书通过几十幅精美图片，追溯了这位艺术家的发展、生活和职业生涯。读者将了解到与达利同时代的米罗、恩斯特和德·基里科以及拉斐尔和高迪对他的影响。本书探讨了他早期对超现实主义的采用，对潜意识的迷恋，以及对战争的厌恶；叙述了达利回归天主教会的过程，他在画作中体现的对核和原子物理学的兴趣，他在电影中进行的实验，后来甚至创造了全息图。本书通俗易懂地介绍了达利的艺术，帮助读者理解为什么他仍然是当今颇具影响力的艺术家。

英文简介：

Although Salvador Dalí's characteristically provocative behavior and bizarre pictorial language made him an outlier in high society, his body of work reflects his century's most important innovations and concerns. This introduction to Dalí's work features dozens of exquisite reproductions as it traces the artist's development, life and career. Readers will learn how he was influenced by contemporaries Miró, Ernst, and de Chirico as well as by Raphael and Gaudí. It explores his early adoption of Surrealism, his fascination with the subconscious, and his antipathy toward war. It illustrates how Dalí's return to the Catholic church and his interest in nuclear and atomic physics was manifested in his paintings; how he experimented in film and, later, even created holograms. By making Dalí's often perplexing art accessible to audiences of every level, this engaging introduction helps readers understand why he remains one of the most influential―and imitated―artists of all time.