by Ian Gibson · AGUILAR · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788403094703
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«Dalí joven, Dalí genial» is Ian Gibson's biography of Salvador Dalí's youth, published by Aguilar in paperback (412 pages, in Spanish).
Ian Gibson reconstructs Salvador Dalí's youth from his Empordà roots and family environment. He narrates his evolution from Impressionism to Surrealism over ten years, with stays in Barcelona, Madrid and Paris alongside Lorca and Buñuel. It includes the encounter with Gala and young Dalí's ambition to equal or surpass Picasso.
It belongs to Aguilar's Punto de mira collection. The work was originally published in 2004; this edition appeared in 2013.
For non-specialist readers interested in Salvador Dalí, Surrealism and biographies of great artists.
Ian Gibson is an Irish author and Hispanist known for his biographies of the poet Antonio Machado, the artist Salvador Dalí, the bibliographer Henry Spencer Ashbee, the filmmaker Luis Buñuel, and particularly his work on the poet and playwright Federico García Lorca, for which he won several awards, including the 1989 James Tait Black Memorial Prize for biography. His work, La represión nacionalista de Granada en 1936 y la muerte de Federico García Lorca was banned in Spain under Franco.
