Salvador Dalí: Difference between revisions

In 1941, Dalí drafted a film scenario for [[Jean Gabin]] called ''Moontide''. In 1942, he published his autobiography, ''The Secret Life of Salvador Dalí''. He wrote catalogs for his exhibitions, such as that at the Knoedler Gallery in New York in 1943. Therein he expounded, "Surrealism will at least have served to give experimental proof that total sterility and attempts at automatizations have gone too far and have led to a totalitarian system. ... Today's laziness and the total lack of technique have reached their paroxysm in the psychological signification of the current use of the college." He also wrote a novel, published in 1944, about a fashion salon for automobiles. This resulted in a drawing by Edwin Cox in [[The Miami Herald]], depicting Dalí dressing an automobile in an evening gown.<ref name="Descharnes (1993) p. 35."/>Also in ''The Secret Life of Salvador Dalí'' (1942), Dalí suggested that he had split with Buñuel because the latter was a [[Communist]] and an [[atheist]]. Buñuel was fired (or resigned) from MOMA, supposedly after [[Cardinal Spellman]] of New York went to see [[Iris Barry]], head of the film department at MOMA. Buñuel then went back to Hollywood where he worked in the dubbing department of [[Warner Brothers]] from 1942 to 1946. In his 1982 autobiography ''Mon Dernier soupir'' (English translation ''My Last Sigh'' published 1983), Buñuel wrote that, over the years, he rejected Dalí's attempts at reconciliation.