Declaration of the Independence of the Imagination and the Rights of Man to His Own Madness
Collection: Collection on the 1939-1940 New York World's Fair
Date: 1939
Material: height: 15 x 8 3/4 inches, [4 pages]
Creator: Dalí, Salvador, 1904-1989
Identifier: aql:5586 2004.2.103 QMOA
Description: Four page manifesto by Salvador Dali regarding the role of surreal and avant-garde art in American society with cover image of a woman with a fish's head. Dali specifically took issue with the committee responsible for the Amusement Area of the 1939 New York World's Fair for forbidding him to erect a woman with the head of the fish on the exterior of his Dream of Venus Pavilion. He purportedly hired a plane to drop the manifesto over New York.
Creator :
Dalí, Salvador, 1904-1989
Date :
1939
Summary/Description :
Four page manifesto by Salvador Dali regarding the role of surreal and avant-garde art in American society with cover image of a woman with a fish's head. Dali specifically took issue with the committee responsible for the Amusement Area of the 1939 New York World's Fair for forbidding him to erect a woman with the head of the fish on the exterior of his Dream of Venus Pavilion. He purportedly hired a plane to drop the manifesto over New York.
Subject :
Surrealism; Art; Artists; New York World's Fair (1939-1940 : New York, N.Y.); Animals, Mythical; Mythology; Intellectual freedom; Amusement Area
Rights :
This object is part of the collection of the Queens Museum, and was cataloged with the generous support of the Council on Libraries and Information Resources (CLIR) as part of a Cataloging Hidden and Special Collections and Archives grant project, in collaboration with the Museum of the City of New York and Queens Library. These objects cannot be accessed at the Queens Library. Please contact info@queensmuseum.org in order to learn more about the object or to access it.
Type :
leaflets (printed works)
Format :
height: 15 x 8 3/4 inches, [4 pages]
Identifier :
aql:5586 2004.2.103 QMOA
Subject:
Surrealism; Art; Artists; New York World's Fair (1939-1940 : New York, N.Y.); Animals, Mythical; Mythology; Intellectual freedom; Amusement Area
Surrealism; Art; Artists; New York World's Fair (1939-1940 : New York, N.Y.); Animals, Mythical; Mythology; Intellectual freedom; Amusement Area
Rights Notice
This object is part of the collection of the Queens Museum, and was cataloged with the generous support of the Council on Libraries and Information Resources (CLIR) as part of a Cataloging Hidden and Special Collections and Archives grant project, in collaboration with the Museum of the City of New York and Queens Library. These objects cannot be accessed at the Queens Library. Please contact info@queensmuseum.org in order to learn more about the object or to access it.
This object is part of the collection of the Queens Museum, and was cataloged with the generous support of the Council on Libraries and Information Resources (CLIR) as part of a Cataloging Hidden and Special Collections and Archives grant project, in collaboration with the Museum of the City of New York and Queens Library. These objects cannot be accessed at the Queens Library. Please contact info@queensmuseum.org in order to learn more about the object or to access it.
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