Introduction

False Memories and Real Passions: Growing up in Catalunya
Modern Painters in their White Studios: The Student Years
Illuminated Pleasures: Arrival in Paris
Systematized Confusion: The Surrealist Years
Living in the Atomic Era: Dali in America
Wearing the Uniform of the Celebrity: Dali and the World
Spectacles and Illusions: The Museums of Dali
The Persistence of the Embarrassing Genius: Reappraising Dali

Glossary
Brief Biographies
Key Dates
Map
Further Reading
Index
Acknowledgements