The Mad, Mad, Mad World of Salvador Dali

The Adventures in Art series adds two titles. The Mad, Mad, Mad World of Salvador Dali by Angela Wenzel focuses on the strange images in Dali's paintings. The author asks (and answers) such questions as what is hidden in the drawers in the woman's body in The Burning Giraffe, and why are there strange melting clocks in The Persistence of Memory? (the artist had eaten a gooey Camembert cheese the night he came up with the idea to add the clocks). Intriguing background information reveals the influence of such personal details plus the larger ideas of the day (such as Freud's) on Dali's work. Joseph Cornell: Secrets in a Box by Alison Baverstock explores the artist's unusual collages and collage boxes made of familiar objects, such as shells, owls, pictures of women in 19th-century dresses and images of the night sky.