Una Erótica Al Servicio De La Crítica De La Modernidad. Los Rostros Ocultos De Salvador Dali

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439 LAUREL RUN PL

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Published shortly after his famous Secret Life (1942), the novel Hidden Faces (1943) should be considered not only as an essential work of the Spanish artist's aesthetic and intellectual proposal, but of the surrealist project itself. The novel, despite its apparent formal and aesthetic anachronism, must be understood within the aesthetic and intellectual proposal of the Spanish artist's pictorial and narrative work. On the one hand, the essay situates Salvador Dalí's work in relation to the work of the Marquis de Sade and sexuality, to propose it not only as a continuation of his moral critique of the Catalan artist but above all as an overcoming of it; on the other hand, the analysis links the moral critique of the novel with the critique of reason and the aesthetic-philosophical proposals of the surrealist project that sought at the beginning of the 20th century to attack the moral and rational foundations of modernity.

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