Quixotic Quests

Daniel Holcombe is an associate professor of Spanish at Georgia College & State University.

• List of IllustrationsList of TablesList of AppendicesPreface1. FoundationsDalinian QuixotismDefining Classicism: Dalí, Freud, Sublimation, and ImitationConscious versus Unconscious; Public versus PrivateUt pictura poesis: Dalinian Narrative and CriticismObject as Fetish: Lacan’s L’objet petit a and Salvador Dalí’s ClédalismExperto credite: Dalí’s Quixotic Sally to the United States2. MaterialitiesThe 1946 Edition: Publishers, Economic Woes, and LiteraturePublic Documents: Unforeseen Challenge and SuccessRevival of LiteraturePrivate Documents: Random House RecordsA Quixotic Cast of (Random House) CharactersThe Adventure of the Missing Illustrations3. ReceptionsSalvador Dalí in an Unpredictable WorldMalgré Lui: Past Political PolemicsSurrealism and Avant-Garde as KitschPopular Culture and Translations: Peter MotteuxUS Academic ReceptionBattling the Black Legend4. IllustrationsEngaging Beholders: Dalinian Didacticism and Academic ArtBattling Surrealism as Kitsch: Futurity of Renaissance Classicism and Baroque MethodologiesClassicism and Myth: Don Quixote’s First Sally with Phoebus and AuroraPictorial Diegesis: Don Quixote and the WindmillsFantasy and Reality: Don Quixote and the Adventure of the Flock of Sheep(Not So) Impossible Dreams: Surrealism in Dalí’s Other Seven 1946 WatercoloursRespecting Narratives: Dalí’s Black and White Line Drawings5. TraditionsIllustrating Don Quixote: Academic Conversations at the Four-Hundred-Year Anniversary of Part I (2005)Sister Arts: Literature and Book IllustrationIllustrative Trends: Foundational Early Illustrated Editions of Don QuixoteSpanish Illustrators: Neoclassical Spanishness in the 1780 Royal Spanish Academy EditionFrench Romanticism: Tony Johannot (1836) and Gustave Doré (1863) Pictorial Benchmarks: Book Illustrations of Don Quixote and the Windmills before DalíImitatio: Dalinian Compositional Tropes in Book Illustrations after 1946EpilogueWorks CitedIndex

"Meticulously researched and organized, this book offers impressive insights into Dalí’s profound understanding of the Quixote and his exceptional brilliance as visual artist of Cervantes’s masterpiece."