Tiny Surrealism - 9780803280885

Tiny SurrealismSalvador Dal and the Aesthetics of the Small\nAuthor(s): Roger Rothman\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: University of Nebraska Press, United States\nImprint: University of Nebraska Press\nISBN-13: 9780803280885, 978-0803280885\nSynopsis\nThough one of the most popular artists of the twentieth century, Salvador Dal is typically seen as peripheral to the dominant practices of modernist painting. Roger Rothman's Tiny Surrealism argues that this marginal position is itself a coherent response to modernism. It demonstrates how Dal's practice was organized around the logic of the inconsequential by focusing on Dal's identification with things that are literally tiny (ants, sewing needles, breadcrumbs, blackheads, etc.) as well as those that are metaphorically small (the trivial, the weak, the superficial, and the anachronistic). In addition to addressing the imagery of Dal's paintings, Tiny Surrealism demonstrates that the logic of the small was a fundamental factor in Dal's a.