La Conquête de l'irrationnel. Avec 35 reproductions photographiques et un hors-texte en couleurs.

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Inscribed by the author on the half-title: ' Joan Maragall, [?] amicalement, Salvado Dali, 1935'.The recipient, Joan-Anton Maragall was the director of the Sala Pars gallery in Barcelona - an important cultural centre in Catalonia, where Picasso held his first exhibition, and where Dal exhibited and lectured in his early years (with inevitable controversy). Maragall was the son of the poet Joan Maragall, whose work was an enduring influence on the painter.The present work is an important statement of Dal's artistic theory in the period of his association with the Surrealists, based around his 'paranoaque-critique' method; towards its close he proceeds ('puisque je me sens inspir, que je vous parle en vers') into an extended vers libre disquisition on Picasso.