An edition of Salvador Dalí's Dream of Venus (2002)

Salvador Dalí's Dream of Venus

the surrealist funhouse from the 1939 World's Fair

Salvador Dalí's Dream of Venus
Ingrid Schaffner, Ingrid Schaf ...
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An edition of Salvador Dalí's Dream of Venus (2002)

Salvador Dalí's Dream of Venus

the surrealist funhouse from the 1939 World's Fair

"Life magazine wrote that one funhouse at the 1939 New York World's Fair stood out among the others: Salvador Dali's Dream of Venus.".

"The building's modern expressionist exterior, with an entrance framed by a woman's legs, and shocking interior, including the bare-breasted "living liquid ladies" who swam inside the tanks, was a controversial sensation. The funhouse was so successful that it reopened for a second season after the fair closed. But once torn down it faded from memory, and its outlandishness became the stuff of urban myth.

Now, more than sixty years later, a collection of Dream of Venus images by noted photographer Eric Schaal has been discovered and presented here in its depth and beauty. In stunning black-and-white and early Kodachrome, the photographs show both the construction and the completion of the funhouse - from Dali painting a melting clock to showgirls parading for their audience.

Salvador Dali's Dream of Venus reveals not only a mind-boggling work of architecture, but also a unique creation by one of the most fertile imaginations of the twentieth century."--BOOK JACKET.

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Language
English
Pages
159

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Table of Contents

Walking the dream
Locating the dream
Plotting the dream
Finding the dream
Funding the dream
Dal-̕niating the dream
Censoring the dream
Realizing the dream
Unveiling the dream
Repressing the dream
Analyzing the dream
Performing the dream
Ending the dream.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. 154-159).

Published in
New York
Genre
Exhibitions.
Other Titles
Dream of Venus

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
709/.2
Library of Congress
N7113.D3 A64 2002, N7113.D3A64 2002

The Physical Object

Pagination
159 p. :
Number of pages
159

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL17920033M
ISBN 10
156898359X
LCCN
2002008548
OCLC/WorldCat
49923744
Library Thing
408647
Goodreads
285585

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