Join us for a deep dive lecture by Dr. Miguel Escribano as we discuss Salvador Dalí’s use of Gowan’s Art Books.

In the book by Dalí, Secret Life, Dalí acknowledges the importance and influence of Gowan’s Art Books, telling the story of how he would spend days at home as a child contemplating and flipping through the books, coming to “know by heart all those pictures of the history of art.”

Gowan’s and Gray published 52 small-volume art books between 1904 and 1914, each containing 60 small black and white photographic reproductions of paintings by great art masters.

Dr. Escribano will show that many of these reproductions were the source for images that Dalí used in his popular surrealist paintings—after all, apart from their place in art history, these books were childhood memories for Dalí, as well as objects of psychoanalytical scrutiny.

In-person and virtual. Stream here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8BvNL47kk2U