Dalí in FormationA Hallucinogenic Journey Cv/VAR series 37 explores the development of Salvador Dalí, from the early phases of childhood, the bizarre and complex aims of his first experiments, to his absorption into high society of Paris in the 1930s, and his inclusion in the Surrealist movement from 1928 to 1939. Essays by Nicholas James and Edward Lucie-Smith consider the makeup of a provocative and original creative personality, acutely reflexive, hyper-intelligent and pathologically driven. Small Histories is a collection of essays and reviews 1993-2011, on examples of Western art: The Trinity by Masaccio at Santa Maria Novella, Florence, Vermeer's The Maid and Woman Weighing Pearls; Velázquez court portraits, Cézanne and Salvador Dalí, Francis Bacon, Anthony Caro, Damien Hirst and Andy Warhol, with reviews of exhibitions in London's public and private galleries. A collection of over seventy pieces reveals strands and connections that bind the continuum of classic and contemporary art.
