Dali: The Wines of Gala Updated Edition Book

Dali: The Wines of Gala Updated Edition Book from Taschen publishing is hot on the heels (or lobster claws) of the best-selling Salvador Dalí phenomenon, Les dîners de Gala. Taschen presents the artist’s equally surreal and sensual viticulture follow-up, a Dalínian take on pleasures of the grape and a coveted collectible, the book sets out to organize wines “according to the sensations they create in our very depths.” Through eclectic metrics like production method, weight, and color, this wine book presents wines of the world in such innovative, Dalíesque groupings as “Wines of Frivolity,” “Wines of the Impossible,” and “Wines of Light.”

Dali: The Wines of Gala Updated Edition Book is bursting with imagery, featuring more than 140 illustrations by Dalí. Many of these are appropriated artworks, including various classical nudes, all of them reconstructed with suitably Surrealist, provocative touches, like Jean-François Millet’s The Angelus, one of Dalí’s favorite points of reference over the decades. Dalí also included what is now considered one of the greatest works from his late “Nuclear Mystic” phase, The Sacrament of the Last Supper (1955), which sets the iconic biblical scene in a translucent dodecahedron-shaped space before a Catalonian coastal landscape. Dalí was by this stage a devout Catholic, simultaneously captivated by science, optical illusion, and the atomic age.

• 2018 Gourmand World Cookbook Awards
• Hardcover
• 8.3 x 11.9 in.
• 296 pages