Scope: Salvador Dali was a Spanish painter, filmmaker, and writer. He was an example of surrealist art. He was interested in scientific theories and discoveries and his so-called “atomic art” revealed artistic renditions of theories of atomic physics.

There are sources located in the Reference Section of the Baddour Library that give a general overview or summary of the topic you are researching. The following is a lsit of some of the sources available in the library.

OVERVIEW SOURCES

REF N 33.P74 2000 The Prestel Dictionary of Art and Artists in the 20th Century 

REF N 31.D5 1996 The Dictionary of Art

Some representative books from the circulating collection located upstairs in the library are:

CIRCULATING BOOKS 

Ades, Dawn. Dali and Surrealism. New York: Harper & Row, 1982.

Dali, Salvador. Dali: The Salvador Dali Museum Collection. Boston: Little, Brown, 
1991.

Dali, Salvador. Dali’s Optical Illusions. New Haven, Conn: Yale University Press, 2000.

Etherington-Smith, Meredith. The Persistence of Memory: A Biography of Dali. New 
York: Random House, 1992.

Maddox, Conroy. Dali. Colgne: Taschen, 1983.

PERIODICALS, JOURNALS, & TRADE PUBLICATIONS

Open Access Journals in Visual Arts

WEB SITES 

Art History Network 
http://www.arthistory.net/

Voice of the Shuttle
http://vos.ucsb.edu/

Updated 08/24/2007