Maldives. 3e édition

A la charnière des mondes chrétien et musulman, de l'Europe et de l'Asie, le Caucase du Sud est un fascinant creuset de cultures. Dans des paysages somptueux, vous y verrez des caravansérails de contes orientaux, des monastères millénaires, des gratte-ciel futuristes, d'antiques temples zoroastriens, des plages chics et des villages perdus dans la montagne. Flotte aussi dans ces trois pays le parfum de "bolchévita" typique des ex-républiques de l'URSS. - Préparer son voyage selon ses envies : des chapitres dédiés à l'organisation du séjour et des itinéraires thématiques. - Vivre des expériences uniques : des cahiers photos, la sélection des sites à ne pas manquer et des meilleures activités. - Sortir des sentiers battus : nos auteurs quadrillent le terrain à la recherche des lieux les plus secrets. Et aussi... - Tout sur les cuisines locales - La randonnée, le rafting, le ski... - L'oenotourisme en Géorgie - L'histoire de la région.

Résumé : Salvador Dali (1904-89) was one of the most controversial and paradoxical artists of the twentieth century. A painter of considerable virtuosity, he used a traditional illusionistic style to create disturbing images filled with references to violence, death, cannibalism and bizarre sexual practices, from the extraordinary limp watches in The Persistence of Memory to the gruesome monster in Soft Construction with Boiled Beans: Premonition of Civil War and the fetishistic lobster in the famous Lobster Telephone. Born in Figueras, Spain, Dali began his artistic career as a Cubist, but subsequently became involved with the Surrealists, the most revolutionary artists of the time. They regarded his paintings as revealing the normally hidden world of the unconscious. Indeed, the Surrealists' leader, André Breton, remarked: 'It is perhaps with Dali that for the first time the windows of the mind arc opened fully wide.' However, Breton later expelled him from the group for his right-wing sympathies and derided his commercial success in the United States, calling him 'Avida Dollars'. Dali's response was equally curt: 'The difference between me and the Surrealists is that 1 am a Surrealist.' Not just restricting his interests to painting, Dali wrote two autobiographies, designed sets and costumes for a play by his friend Federico Garcia Lorca and collaborated with Luis Bunuel on the film Un Chien andalou, a medium which proved particularly apt for his provocative imagery. Christopher Masters is an art historian with a special interest in the art of the early twentieth century.