Cretinisation
Lorna Scott Fox: Salvador Dali, 2 April 1998
The Shameful Life of Salvador Dali
by Ian Gibson.
Faber, 764 pp., £30, November 1997,0 571 16751 9 Show More
by Ian Gibson.
Faber, 764 pp., £30, November 1997,
“... provides no evidence for its allegations that Dalí was terrified of being gay. Indeed, he seemed frank about his ambiguities, and emphasised them in his imagery, like everything else that could impress polite society; as for having a go with Lorca, he simply reported that ‘it hurt,’ so they stopped. In his psychoanalytic angle on shame Gibson can go too ... ”