MANIAC EYEBALL contains the frank and uncensored confessions of Salvador Dalí, from his childhood and first adolescent sexual experiences to his emergence as a painter, Surrealist, and eventually the most famous - and possibly richest - artist of modern times. These inspired tracts, covering art, love, sex, money, death, fame, science, his famous friends and enemies, and his extraordinary creative genius, reveal the intricate workings of Dalí's mind to create not only an unparalleled autobiography but also one of the key Surrealist texts yet published. Illustrated throughout, MANIAC EYEBALL also includes a complete chronology of Dalí's life. It is the third and most comprehensive volume of autobiography by the most famous and controversial painter of the 20th century. Salvador Dalí (1904-1989) entered the ranks of the Surrealists in 1929 with a series of iconoclastic paintings which fused technical virtuosity with Freudian infantilism, leading to his invention of the "paranoiac-critical" method. Later expelled from the Surrealist Group, he was christened "Avida Dollars" by André Breton whilst acquiring the reputation of master showman and scandalist. His art and writings remain amongst the most unique and important bodies of work of the 20th Century. Solar Art Directives features the most innovative artists of the 20th century....

A seminal surrealist text, revealing the astonishing and intimate workings of the mind of Salvador Dali, the eccentric polymath genius who became the living embodiment of the 20th century’s most subversive, disturbing and influential art movement. This second volume of Dali’s autobiography covers his life from 1952 to 1963, the time of amour fou for his wife Gala and their bizarre world travels. This is Dali’s "rhinocerontic" period, and he preaches post-holocaustal gospels of nuclear mysticism and cosmogenic atavism leading to his painting of the Assumption and his film script, The Flesh Wheelbarrow. This new, expanded edition includes a brilliant revelatory essay on the importance of Dali’s art to the 20th century by the seminal author J G Ballard. Illustrated throughout.

The only edition to buy. -- The London Times

Dali’s paintings reveal in the most powerful form the basic elements of the Surrealist imagination: a series of equations for dealing with the extraordinary transformations of our age. Let us salute this unique genius. -- J G Ballard...

Diario de un genio (1952-1964), que sigue a Mi vida secreta, revela a un Dali cotidiano, de una extraordinaria autenticidad, una especie de retrato de Dali desnudo, contemplandose con sumo deleite en el espejo ante el cual el mismo se situa. Pero lo que salta a la vista es que Dali no solo ama su reflejo : presentes en el, y mucho mas alla de su propia imagen, estan las grandes cuestiones que agitan el pensamiento del genio que el jamas dudo que era. Como no teme las palabras, juega con ellas a placer, tiñendolas de un irresistible humor. El retrato que hace de sus contemporaneos es fulgurante, a veces respetuoso, otras demoledor, siempre ironico. Y, por encima de todo ello, las peripecias espirituales de un artista que lleva la conciencia de su arte hasta el paroxismo y los limites de la locura -sin los cuales no hay autentica aventura- y una vida convertida ella misma en obra de arte, en continuo espectaculo, en incesante invencion. / Diary of a Genius 1952-1964), follows by My Secret Life, reveals a daily Dali, with an extraordinary authenticity, a kind of portrait of Dali naked, covered with great delight in the mirror before which hes standing. But what is obvious is that Dali not only loves his reflection: in him, and far beyond his own image, are the big questions that agitated the mind of genius that he never doubted he was. As hes not afraid of the words, he plays with them with pleasure, tainted them with an irresistible humor....