Cretinisation

Lorna Scott Fox

  • The Shameful Life of Salvador Dali by Ian Gibson
    Faber, 764 pp, £30.00, November 1997, ISBN 0 571 16751 9

Modern artist as con-man: Salvador Dalí. The phoniness of Dalí’s work from the late Thirties until his death in 1989 coincided with the period of his greatest notoriety and wealth. He threw political and aesthetic principle to the dogs, becoming a born-again supporter of Franco and a fervent monarchist in order to ensure his security after the defeat of the Spanish Republic, and spent the rest of his life as a salon jester of cosmic pretensions.

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