Salvador Dali's Dream of Venus: The Surrealist Funhouse, GREAT CONDITION DEAL!
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Salvador Dali's Dream of Venus: The Surrealist Funhouse, GREAT CONDITION DEAL!
US $39.99
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A book that does not look new and has been read but is in excellent condition. No obvious damage to the cover, with the dust jacket (if applicable) included for hard covers. No missing or damaged pages, no creases or tears, and no underlining/highlighting of text or writing in the margins. May be very minimal identifying marks on the inside cover. Very minimal wear and tear. See the seller’s listing for full details and description of any imperfections.
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Item specifics
- Condition
- Features
- Dust Jacket
- ISBN
- 9781568983592
- Book Title
- Salvador Dali's Dream of Venus : the Surrealist Funhouse from the 1939 World's Fair
- Publisher
- Princeton Architectural Press
- Item Length
- 12.3 in
- Publication Year
- 2002
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Illustrator
- Yes
- Item Height
- 0.7 in
- Genre
- Art
- Topic
- Sculpture & Installation, History / Modern (Late 19th Century to 1945), Individual Artists / General
- Item Weight
- 55.4 Oz
- Item Width
- 10.5 in
- Number of Pages
- 144 Pages
About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Princeton Architectural Press
ISBN-10
156898359X
ISBN-13
9781568983592
eBay Product ID (ePID)
5038388523
Product Key Features
Book Title
Salvador Dali's Dream of Venus : the Surrealist Funhouse from the 1939 World's Fair
Number of Pages
144 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2002
Topic
Sculpture & Installation, History / Modern (Late 19th Century to 1945), Individual Artists / General
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Art
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
0.7 in
Item Weight
55.4 Oz
Item Length
12.3 in
Item Width
10.5 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2002-008548
Dewey Edition
21
Grade From
Eighth Grade
Dewey Decimal
709/.2
Grade To
College Graduate Student
Synopsis
Life Magazine wrote that one funhouse at the 1939 World's Fair stood out among the others: "Dal 's Dream of Venus, the creation of famed Surrealist painter Salvador Dal , is the most recent addition to the still-growing list of amusement-area girl shows and easily the most amazing. Weird building contains a dry tank and a wet tank. In the wet tank girls swim under water, milk a bandaged-up cow, tap typewriter keys which float like seaweed. Keyboard of piano is painted on the recumbent female figure made of rubber. In dry tank...a sleeping Venus reclines in 36-foot bed, covered with white and red satin, flowers, and leaves. Scattered about the bed are lobsters frying on beds of hot coals and bottles of champagne....All this is most amusing and interesting." The building's modern, expressionistic exterior, with an entrance framed by a woman's legs, and shocking interior, including the bare-breasted "living liquid ladies" who occupied the tanks, caused quite a stir. The funhouse was so successful that it reopened for a second season, but once torn down it faded from memory and its outlandishness became the stuff of urban myth. Now, more than 60 years later, a collection of photographs of the Dream of Venus by Eric Schaal has been discovered. In stunning black-and-white and early Kodachrome, they show both the construction and the completion of the funhouse-from Dal painting a melting clock to showgirls parading for their audience. Salvador Dal 's Dream of Venus reveals not only an eccentric work of architecture, but also a one-of-a-kind creation by one of the most fertile imaginations of the 20th century., Life Magazine wrote that one funhouse at the 1939 World's Fair stood out among the others:"Dal's Dream of Venus, the creation of famed Surrealist painter Salvador Dal, is the most recent addition to the still-growing list of amusement-area girl shows and easily the most amazing. Weird building contains a dry tank and a wet tank. In the wet tank girls swim under water, milk a bandaged-up cow, tap typewriter keys which float like seaweed. Keyboard of piano is painted on the recumbent female figure made of rubber. In dry tanka sleeping Venus reclines in 36-foot bed, covered with white and red satin, flowers, and leaves. Scattered about the bed are lobsters frying on beds of hot coals and bottles of champagne.All this is most amusing and interesting."The building's modern, expressionistic exterior, with an entrance framed by a woman's legs, and shocking interior, including the bare-breasted "living liquid ladies" who occupied the tanks, caused quite a stir. The funhouse was so successful that it reopened for a second season, but once torn down it faded from memory and its outlandishness became the stuff of urban myth. Now, more than 60 years later, a collection of photographs of the Dream of Venus by Eric Schaal has been discovered. In stunning black-and-white and early Kodachrome, they show both the construction and the completion of the funhouse-from Dal painting a melting clock to showgirls parading for their audience. Salvador Dal's Dream of Venus reveals not only an eccentric work of architecture, but also a one-of-a-kind creation by one of the most fertile imaginations of the 20th century.
LC Classification Number
N7113.D3A64 2002
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