{"product_id":"9781487555740-quixotic-quests","title":"Quixotic Quests","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eSalvador Dalí's First Illustrated Don Quixote\u003cbr\u003eQuixotic Quests explores the publication of the special 1946 edition of Don Quixote illustrated by Salvador Dalí, analysing the artist’s didactic compositions, revealing the book’s material history, and tracing the mid-century reception of both.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eSalvador Dalí illustrated Miguel de Cervantes’s \u003cem\u003eDon Quixote\u003c\/em\u003e for the first time while living in exile in the United States in the 1940s, collaborating with Random House to produce a special edition that was published in 1946. \u003cem\u003eQuixotic Quests\u003c\/em\u003e examines the material history of this 1946 edition by bridging art history, book history, literature, and narratology, while exploring Dalí's role as its illustrator and the reception of both by mid-century popular culture, art historians, and literary scholars.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePositing that much of Dalí's life was quixotic in nature, the book investigates his quest to illustrate the novel with an unprecedented level of pictorial didacticism, despite challenges that the artist and Random House faced during and after the Second World War. It details his resolute passion to integrate surrealism with classicism, visual art with narrative, sexuality with sublimation, and privacy with public persona. Contrasting Dalí's visual achievements with other artists and stylistic movements, \u003cem\u003eQuixotic Quests\u003c\/em\u003e sheds new light on the niche that Dalí created for himself as a surrealist illustrator of \u003cem\u003eDon Quixote\u003c\/em\u003e. Consulting his autobiographical narratives, the book analyses Dalí's unique artistic contributions to the four-hundred-year print history of the novel, while emphasizing the artist's heartfelt appreciation and respect for his book illustrations.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55758705656182,"sku":"9781487555740","price":59.53,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_35389271_7ee67fdd-fcb1-43bc-b5f8-189e4ece7487.jpg?v=1752772413","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9781487555740-quixotic-quests","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}