@article{456785,
      recid = {456785},
      author = {Rothman, Roger.},
      title = {Tiny surrealism : Salvador Dalí and the aesthetics of the  small /},
      pages = {xiv, 262 pages :},
      abstract = {"Although one of the most popular artists of the twentieth  century, Salvador Dali; has typically been considered no  more than peripheral to the dominant practices of  modernism. Roger Rothman's Tiny Surrealism argues that this  marginal position itself should be examined as a coherent  response to modernism. It demonstrates how Dali;'s practice  was in fact organized around the logic of the small and the  inconsequential and considers in this context Dali;'s  identification not only with the literally small (ants,  sewing needles, breadcrumbs, blackheads, etc.) but also  with the metaphorically small (the trivial, the weak, the  superficial, and the anachronistic). In addition to  addressing Dali;'s imagery, Tiny Surrealism demonstrates  that the logic of the minor and the marginal was a  fundamental factor in Dali;'s adherence to the techniques  of miniaturist illusionism; long derided as antimodernist  and kitsch, Dali;'s style was itself a strategy of the  small aimed at subverting the dominant values of modern  painting. Dali; constructed his practice as a parasite on  the body of modernism: a small but potentially virulent  intruder.Because Dali; was a prolific and complex writer,  Rothman makes extensive use of Dali;'s writings, both his  public pronouncements and private correspondence. By  attending to the peculiarities of Dali;'s technique and  examining overlooked aspects of his writings, Tiny  Surrealism is the first study to detail his deliberate  subversio n of modernist orthodoxies. "--},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/456785},
}