Dali explores the rich complexity of Salvado Dali's imagination and sets him in context as both a scion of the Surrealist movement and a fiercely independent sipirt. A compregensive introduction focuses on Dali's development and uses of the pranoiac-critical method in the early 1930s as a means of liberating the creative unconsciousness. The author argues that the paintings of this period, with their hallucinatory force, represent the most original and exciting period in Dali's long working life, and relates them to both his earlier Surrealist work and his post-war painting. 60 of his most representative works are reproduced in large-format full color, and detailed commentaries elucidate their complex and disturbing imagery, the expression of Dali's personal obsessions, Dali is a fitting memorial to a unique artistic phenomenon.