Salvador Dalí
Salvador Dalí (1904-1989) is known worldwide for his painting, but this symposium was not dedicated to the Dalí artist, but to the Dalí writer and thinker, dealing in detail with the literary aspects of Dalí. This is an extremely important perspective that has often been put on the back burner.
Dalí’s relationship with writing has already been discussed above, but Dalí’s thought requires a permanent re-reading of his texts. Dalí’s literary legacy is very important. Writing was a permanent resource in his creative process. Sometimes with a public vocation, as in the “Manifest groc” of 1928; more often, in the germinating nucleus of his pictorial work. However, beyond the autobiography and the manifesto, Dalí cultivated poetry, prose and film scripts, as well as numerous articles for magazines, many of which became, over time, critical essays on art.
See here the biography of Salvador Dalí.
Programme
LITERATURE AND THOUGHT IN SALVADOR DALÍ
Figueres, 16th and 17th April 2012
(Click here to downoload the programme in pdf)
Dilluns, 16th April
- Opening of the Symposium, with Montse Aguer (Gala-Salvador Dalí Foundation) and Josep-Maria Terricabras (Ferrater Mora Chair)
- Salvador Dalí: lo que nos cuenta su biblioteca, by Juan Manuel Bonet (Writer & Art Critic)
- De ‘La vida secreta’ como poética, by Eugenio Carmona Mato (Universidad de Málaga)
- La frase daliniana, by Enric Casasses (Poet, teacher in never knowing
- Equívocs i malentesos al voltant d’una (in)certa fenomenologia daliniana, by Vicent Santamaria de Mingo (PhD in Catalan Philology)
Tuesday, April 17th
- Les récits «paranoïaques-critiques» de Dalí: modèles et portée cognitive des mises en intrigue, by Astrid Ruffa (Université de Lausanne)
- On Anachronism: Dalí and the End of Painting, by David Lomas (Associate Director of the AHRC Research Centre for Studies of Surrealism, University of Manchester)
- Dalí en l’esfera pública. El pallasso il·lustrat o l’intel·lectual incomprès, by Joan M. Minguet Batllori (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona)
- Imagen y pensamiento en Salvador Dalí, by Lucia Moni (Center for Dalinian Studies. Gala-Salvador Dalí Foundation)
- Conclusion of the Symposium
Videos
In this link you will find all the videos of the conferences and communications of the Symposium on Salvador Dalí.
Papers
Monday, April 16th
- Surrealisme, vinyetes i ninots, by Sebastià Roig (Jounalist)
- Dalí / Bataille: correspondencias, by Marisa Garcia Vergara (Universitat de Girona)
- Les col·laboracions de Salvador Dalí a la revista Minotaure, revue artistique et littéraire, by Ignasi Roviró Alemany (Facultat de Filosofia - Universitat Ramon Llull)
- Un excés de sentit, by Raquel Baseiria (Degree in Philosophy and film essayist) and Jordi Nopca (Journalist and writer)
Tuesday, April 17th
- Salvador Dalí, el naixement de la nova iconografia de la malenconia, del Diari de Joventut a l’Angelus de Millet, by Mariona Seguranyes (PhD in Humanities and Art Historian)
- «La crisálida de la desventura»: metamorfosis, muerte y resurrección en Rostros ocultos de Salvador Dalí, by Mathilde Hamel (Université de Rouen)
- Filosofia i metafísica en Dalí, byJoan Cuscó i Clarasó (PhD in Philosophy)
Publication
Salvador Dalí (Figueres, 1904-1989) is known worldwide for his painting, but this volume is not dedicated to the Dalí artist, but to the Dalí writer and thinker. The authors of the chapters that make up this volume are international specialists in the literary work of Salvador Dalí, such as Joan M. Minguet, Vicent Santamaria, Astrid Ruffa, Eugenio Carmona, Lucia Moni, Juan Manuel Bonet and Enric Casasses, among others. See the press dossier.
The book was presented at the Dalí Museum in Figueres on March 14, 2017 (see the chronicle of the Diari Digital de l’Empordà and Tramuntana Televisió) and in the Francesc Pujols Foundation in Martorell on May, 4 (see the review by the Martorell City Council).
This is the eighth volume of the collection “Nombres de la Filosofia Catalana” (Names of Catalan Philosophy), which brings together the research carried out by the Ferrater Mora Chair around Catalan intellectuals of the 19th and 20th centuries.
Here you can find more information about the book on Salvador Dalí.
Press releases
Click here to read the press dossier of the Symposium dedicated to Salvador Dalí.