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October 18, 2005
Dawn Ades, ed. Dalí Exh. cat. Philadelphia: Rizzoli in association with Philadelphia Museum of Art, 2003. 560 pp.; 500 ills. (0847826732)

Palazzo Grassi, Venice, September 12, 2004–January 16, 2005; Philadelphia Museum of Art, February 16–May 30, 2005

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CrossRef DOI: 10.3202/caa.reviews.2005.54

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Image: Salvador Dalí. My Wife, Nude, Contemplating her own Flesh Becoming Stairs, Three Vertebrae of a Column, Sky and Architecture, 1945. Oil on panel. 24 x 20 1/2 in. San Francisco, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, © Gala-Salvador Dalí Foundation/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.

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The centennial exhibition of the works of Salvador Dalí (1904–1989) at the Philadelphia Museum of Art was a signal event for those interested in the past century of intimate relations between the visual arts and psychoanalysis. In The Secret Life of Salvador Dalí (New York: Dial Press, 1942; 17–18), the painter reports that during their first meeting he and Jacques Lacan (1901–1981) were astonished at the congruence of their views on the primacy of paranoia...