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Salvador Dalí's Dream of Venus : the surrealist funhouse from the 1939 World's Fair
- Title
- Salvador Dalí's Dream of Venus : the surrealist funhouse from the 1939 World's Fair / Ingrid Schaffner ; photographs by Eric Schaal.
- Author
- Schaffner, Ingrid.
- Publication
- New York : Princeton Architectural Press, ©2002.
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- Description
- 159 pages : illustrations (some color); 32 cm
- Summary
- "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."--Jacket.
- Alternative Title
- Dream of Venus
- Subject
- Dalí, Salvador, 1904-1989
- Dalí, Salvador, 1904-1989 > Criticism and interpretation
- Schaal, Eric
- Dalí, Salvador, 1904-1989
- Schaal, Eric
- Venus Göttin
- Dalí, Salvador 1904-1989
- Dalí, Salvador 1904-1989
- Dalí, Salvador
- New York World's Fair (1939-1940 : New York, N.Y.)
- New York World's Fair
- Dream of Venus (Dalí, Salvador)
- Installations (Art) > New York (State) > New York
- Surrealism > Exhibitions
- Installations (Art)
- Surrealism
- Kunst
- New York (State) > New York
- Genre/Form
- exhibition catalogs.
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Exhibition catalogs
- Books.
- Exhibition catalogs.
- Catalogues d'exposition.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 154-159).
- Contents
- Walking the dream -- Locating the dream -- Plotting the dream -- Finding the dream -- Funding the dream -- Dalí-niating the dream -- Censoring the dream -- Realizing the dream -- Unveiling the dream -- Repressing the dream -- Analyzing the dream -- Performing the dream -- Ending the dream.
- ISBN
- 156898359X
- 9781568983592
- LCCN
- 2002008548
- OCLC
- ocm49923744
- 49923744
- SCSB-1274106
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library