{"product_id":"quixotic-quests-salvador-dalis-first-illustrated-don-quixote-hardback-9781487555740","title":"Quixotic Quests; Salvador Dalí's First Illustrated Don Quixote (Hardback) 9781487555740","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eQuixotic Quests\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eSalvador Dalí's First Illustrated Don Quixote\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eDaniel Holcombe (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781487555740\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 8 May 2025\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e394 pages, 19 illustrations\u003cbr\u003e23.5 x 16 x 2.8 cm, 0.78 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\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\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eList of Illustrations\u003cbr\u003eList of Tables\u003cbr\u003eList of Appendices\u003cbr\u003ePreface\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1. Foundations\u003cbr\u003eDalinian Quixotism\u003cbr\u003eDefining Classicism: Dalí, Freud, Sublimation, and Imitation\u003cbr\u003eConscious versus Unconscious; Public versus Private\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eUt pictura poesis:\u003c\/em\u003e Dalinian Narrative and Criticism\u003cbr\u003eObject as Fetish: Lacan’s \u003cem\u003eL’objet petit a\u003c\/em\u003e and Salvador Dalí’s \u003cem\u003eClédalism\u003cbr\u003eExperto credite\u003c\/em\u003e: Dalí’s Quixotic Sally to the United States\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2. Materialities\u003cbr\u003eThe 1946 Edition: Publishers, Economic Woes, and Literature\u003cbr\u003ePublic Documents: Unforeseen Challenge and Success\u003cbr\u003eRevival of Literature\u003cbr\u003ePrivate Documents: Random House Records\u003cbr\u003eA Quixotic Cast of (Random House) Characters\u003cbr\u003eThe Adventure of the Missing Illustrations\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3. Receptions\u003cbr\u003eSalvador Dalí in an Unpredictable World\u003cbr\u003eMalgré Lui: Past Political Polemics\u003cbr\u003eSurrealism and Avant-Garde as Kitsch\u003cbr\u003ePopular Culture and Translations: Peter Motteux\u003cbr\u003eUS Academic Reception\u003cbr\u003eBattling the Black Legend\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4. Illustrations\u003cbr\u003eEngaging Beholders: Dalinian Didacticism and Academic Art\u003cbr\u003eBattling Surrealism as Kitsch: Futurity of Renaissance Classicism and Baroque Methodologies\u003cbr\u003eClassicism and Myth: \u003cem\u003eDon Quixote’s First Sally with Phoebus and Aurora\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/em\u003ePictorial Diegesis: \u003cem\u003eDon Quixote and the Windmills\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFantasy and Reality:\u003cem\u003e Don Quixote and the Adventure of the Flock of Sheep\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e(Not So) Impossible Dreams: Surrealism in Dalí’s Other Seven 1946 Watercolours\u003cbr\u003eRespecting Narratives: Dalí’s Black and White Line Drawings\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5. Traditions\u003cbr\u003eIllustrating \u003cem\u003eDon Quixote\u003c\/em\u003e: Academic Conversations at the Four-Hundred-Year Anniversary of Part I (2005)\u003cbr\u003eSister Arts: Literature and Book Illustration\u003cbr\u003eIllustrative Trends: Foundational Early Illustrated Editions of \u003cem\u003eDon Quixote\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/em\u003eSpanish Illustrators: Neoclassical\u003cem\u003e Spanishness\u003c\/em\u003e in the 1780 Royal Spanish Academy Edition\u003cbr\u003eFrench Romanticism: Tony Johannot (1836) and Gustave Doré (1863) \u003cbr\u003ePictorial Benchmarks: Book Illustrations of \u003cem\u003eDon Quixote and the Windmills\u003c\/em\u003e before Dalí\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eImitatio\u003c\/em\u003e: Dalinian Compositional Tropes in Book Illustrations after 1946\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEpilogue\u003cbr\u003eWorks Cited\u003cbr\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"University of Toronto Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52685404635416,"sku":"9781487555740","price":45.49,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/quixotic-quests-salvador-dalis-first-illustrated-don-quixote-hardback-9781487555740","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}