Daniel Holcombe

Quixotic Quests

Salvador Dalí's First Illustrated Don Quixote

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Produktbeschreibung

Quixotic 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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Toronto Press
• Seitenzahl: 394
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Mai 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 157mm x 33mm
• Gewicht: 776g
• ISBN-13: 9781487555740
• ISBN-10: 1487555741
• Artikelnr.: 71604609

Autorenporträt

Daniel Holcombe is an associate professor of Spanish at Georgia College & State University.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations
List of Tables
List of Appendices
Preface
1. Foundations
Dalinian Quixotism
Defining Classicism: Dalí, Freud, Sublimation, and Imitation
Conscious versus Unconscious; Public versus Private
Ut pictura poesis: Dalinian Narrative and Criticism
Object as Fetish: Lacan’s L’objet petit a and Salvador Dalí’s Clédalism
Experto credite: Dalí’s Quixotic Sally to the United States
2. Materialities
The 1946 Edition: Publishers, Economic Woes, and Literature
Public Documents: Unforeseen Challenge and Success
Revival of Literature
Private Documents: Random House Records
A Quixotic Cast of (Random House) Characters
The Adventure of the Missing Illustrations
3. Receptions
Salvador Dalí in an Unpredictable World
Malgré Lui: Past Political Polemics
Surrealism and Avant-Garde as Kitsch
Popular Culture and Translations: Peter Motteux
US Academic Reception
Battling the Black Legend
4. Illustrations
Engaging Beholders: Dalinian Didacticism and Academic Art
Battling Surrealism as Kitsch: Futurity of Renaissance Classicism and
Baroque Methodologies
Classicism and Myth: Don Quixote’s First Sally with Phoebus and Aurora
Pictorial Diegesis: Don Quixote and the Windmills
Fantasy and Reality: Don Quixote and the Adventure of the Flock of Sheep
(Not So) Impossible Dreams: Surrealism in Dalí’s Other Seven 1946
Watercolours
Respecting Narratives: Dalí’s Black and White Line Drawings
5. Traditions
Illustrating Don Quixote: Academic Conversations at the Four-Hundred-Year
Anniversary of Part I (2005)
Sister Arts: Literature and Book Illustration
Illustrative Trends: Foundational Early Illustrated Editions of Don Quixote
Spanish Illustrators: Neoclassical Spanishness in the 1780 Royal Spanish
Academy Edition
French Romanticism: Tony Johannot (1836) and Gustave Doré (1863)
Pictorial Benchmarks: Book Illustrations of Don Quixote and the Windmills
before Dalí
Imitatio: Dalinian Compositional Tropes in Book Illustrations after 1946
Epilogue
Works Cited
Index