- Cat. no. OE
- 1
Objet à fonctionnement symbolique
Object Functioning Symbolically
Shoe and Glass of Milk
Cat. no. OE 1
Object Functioning Symbolically
1931
Description
- Description:
- This is almost certainly the first surrealistic object created by Dalí. He himself classified it as an object functioning symbolically, a category name that on this occasion also gives the work its title. Dalí presented this Surrealist object in 1931, in issue number 3 of Le Surréalisme au service de la révolution, where he also identifies it as Shoe and Glass of Milk: ‘A woman’s shoe, inside of which a glass of warm milk has been placed, in the centre of a soft paste in the colour of excrement. The mechanism consists of the dipping in the milk of a sugar lump, on which there is a drawing of a shoe, so that the dissolving of the sugar, and consequently of the image of the shoe, may be observed. Several accessories (pubic hairs glued to a sugar lump, an erotic little photograph) complete the object, which is accompanied by a box of spare sugar lumps and a special spoon used for stirring lead pellets inside the shoe.’ The photograph published next to the text is still the only testimony that allows this work to be identified.
- Salvador Dalí, "Objets surréalistes", Le Surréalisme Au Service de la Révolution, num. 3, 31/12/1931, Paris, pp. 16-17, ill.
- "Diez y seis páginas de reproducciones", año II, nº II, 1933, Madrid, p. [35], ill.
- Petite anthologie poétique du surréalisme, Jeanne Bucher, Paris, 1934, between pp. 48-49, ill.
- Vilhem Bjerke-Petersen, Surrealismen : livsanskuelse, livsudfoldelse, kunst, Illums bog-afdeling, København [Copenhague], [1934], p. 93, ill.
- Salvador Dalí, La Conquête de l'irrationnel, Éditions Surréalistes, Paris, 1935, fig. 25, ill.
- Salvador Dalí, Conquest of the irrational, Julien Levy, New York, 1935, fig. 25, ill.
- Dictionnaire abrégé du surréalisme, Galerie Beaux-Arts, Paris, 1938, p. 45, ill.
- Conroy Maddox, "The Object in Surrealism", London Bulletin, nos. 18-20, 06/1940, London, p. 41
- Salvador Dalí, The Secret Life of Salvador Dalí, Dial Press, New York, 1942, p. [87], ill.
- Rafael Santos Torroella, "Genio y figura del surrealismo", Cobalto. Arte antiguo y moderno, vol. II, Cuaderno especial: "Surrealismo", 15/07/1948, Barcelona, p. 14, ill.
- Salvador Dalí, La Vie secrète de Salvador Dalí, La Table Ronde, Paris, 1952, p. [96], ill.
- Marino Gómez-Santos, Mundo aparte, Aguilar, Madrid, 1960, p. 91
- Luis Romero, "Dalinismo", La Vanguardia Española, 20/10/1963, Barcelona, p. [43], ill.
- "Playboy interview: Salvador Dali", vol. 11, no. 7, 07/1964, Chicago, IL, p. 46
- William S. Rubin, Dada and surrealist art, Harry N. Abrams, New York, [1968], p. 269, ill.
- Robert Descharnes, Salvador Dalí, Nouvelles Editions Françaises, Paris, 1973, p. 62, ill.
- Robert Descharnes, Salvador Dalí, M. DuMont Schauberg, Köln, 1974, p. 63, ill.
- Le Surréalisme au service de la révolution, Jean-Michel Place, Paris, 1976, pp. 16-17, [190], ill.
- William S. Rubin, Art Dada et Surrealiste, Seghers, Paris, [1976], pp. 263, 269, 478, ill.
- Robert Benayoun, Erotique du surréalisme, Jean-Jacques Pauvert, [París], 1978, p. 81, ill., detail
- Salvador Dalí, Il Mito tragico dell'Angelus de Millet, Gabriele Mazzotta, Milano, 1978, p. [112], ill.
- Petit journal Salvador Dalí, Centre Georges Pompidou, [París], 1979, p. 9, ill.
- Salvador Dalí: rétrospective, 1920-1980, Centre Georges Pompidou, Musée National d'Art moderne, Paris, 1979, p. 219, ill.
- André Breton, Le Surréalisme et la peinture, Gallimard, [París], 1979, p. 277, ill.
- Luis Romero, Dalí, Polígrafa, Barcelona, 1979, pp. 304, 355, ill.
- Salvador Dalí, Oui 1 : la révolution paranoïaque-critique, Denoël, Gonthier, Paris, 1979, between pp. 112-113, ill.
- Salvador Dalí: retrospektive, 1920-1980, Prestel, München, 1980, pp. 219-220, ill.
- Gaëtan Picon, Diario del surrealismo, Skira, Destino, [Barcelona], Genève, 1981, p. [151], ill.
- Dalí i els llibres, Generalitat de Catalunya. Departament de Cultura., Barcelona, 1982, p. 37, ill.
- Dawn Ades, Dalí, Thames and Hudson, London, 1982, p. [155], ill.
- Dawn Ades, Dalí and surrealism, Harper & Row, New York, 1982, p. [155], ill.
- Gaëtan Picon, Le Surréalisme : 1919 - 1939, Skira, Genève, 1983, p. [151], ill.
- Pierre Ajame, La Double de vie de Salvador Dali, Ramsay, Paris, 1984, pp. 68, 94
- Robert Descharnes, Dalí, the work, the man: 1910-1933, Kodansha, [Tòquio], 1984, p. 151, ill.
- Robert Descharnes, Dalí : la obra y el hombre, Tusquets / Edita, Lausanne, Barcelona, 1984, p. 151, ill.
- Robert Descharnes, Dalí, l'oeuvre et l'homme, Edita, Lausanne, 1984, p. 151, ill.
- Franco Passoni, A. Reynolds Morse, Albert Field, Dalí nella terza dimensione, Master Fine Art Gallery, Milano, 1986, p. 17, ill.
- Salvador Dalí, Millet Angelusának tragikus mítosza, Corvina, Budapest, 1986, p. [78], ill.
- Salvador Dalí, The Tragic myth of Millet's Angelus, The Salvador Dalí Museum, St. Petersburg, 1986, p. [82], ill.
- Guillermo Carnero, Las Armas abisinias, Anthropos, Barcelona, 1989, lam. XXVI, p. 414, ill.
- El Objeto surrealista en España, Museo de Teruel, Fundació Caixa de Barcelona, [Barcelona], Teruel, 1990, p. 14, ill.
- L'Objecte surrealista a Espanya, Diputació Provincial de Teruel, Fundació Caixa de Barcelona, Teruel, Barcelona, 1990, p. 14, ill.
- André Breton, la beauté convulsive, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, 1991, p. 204
- André Breton, Paul Éluard, Dictionnaire abrégé du surréalisme, José Corti, [París], 1991, p. 45, ill.
- Briony Fer, David Batchelor, Paul Wood, Realism, rationalism, surrealism : art between the wars, Yale University Press in association with the Open University, New Haven & London, 1993, pp. 224-225, ill.
- ¿Buñuel!, Auge des Jahrhunderts, Kunst-und Ausstellungshalle der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Bonn, 1994, p. 177, ill.
- Marco Di Capua, Dalí, Librairie Gründ, Paris, 1994, p. 22, ill.
- Fetishism, visualising power and desire, The South Bank Centre, The Royal Pavillion, Art Gallery and Museums, Lund Humphries, Brighton, London, 1995, p. 74, ill., indirect image
- ¿Buñuel!, la mirada del siglo, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Museo del Palacio de Bellas Artes, México, Distrito Federal, Madrid, 1996, p. 135, ill.
- Haim Finkelstein, Salvador Dalí's art and writing, 1927-1942 : the metamorphoses of Narcissus, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1996, pp. 134, 165, 169, 290, 293, ill.
- Jean-Paul Clebert, Dictionnaire du surréalisme, Seuil, [París], 1996, p. 416
- El Objeto surrealista, IVAM. Centre Julio González, Generalitat Valenciana. Conselleria de Cultura, Educació i Ciència, [València], 1997, pp. 56, 60
- Ian Gibson, The Shameful life of Salvador Dalí, Faber and Faber, London, 1997, p. 292
- Briony Fer, David Batchelor, Paul Wood, Realismo, racionalismo, surrealismo : el arte entreguerras, Akal, Madrid, 1999, pp. 228-229, ill.
- Masterpieces of surrealism, Salvador Dalí Museum, St. Petersburg, Florida, 2000, p. 29, ill.
- Christopher Green, Art in France : 1900- 1940, Yale University Press, New Haven and London, 2000, p. 132, ill.
- André Breton, Le Surréalisme et la peinture, Gallimard, [París], 2002, p. 356, ill.
- Marco Di Capua, Salvador Dalí : la vita e l'opera, Mondadori Electa, Milano, 2002, p. 22, ill.
- André Breton, Paul Éluard, Diccionario abreviado del surrealismo, Siruela, Madrid, 2003, p. 131
- Marco Di Capua, Salvador Dalí : su vida, su obra, Carroggio, Barcelona, 2003, p. 22, ill.
- Ricard Mas Peinado, Universdalí, Lunwerg, Barcelona, Madrid, 2003, pp. 229, 314-315
- Robert Descharnes, Nicolas Descharnes, Dalí : le dur et le mou : sortilège et magie des formes, sculptures et objets, Eccart, [Azay le Rideau], 2003, p. 24, ill.
- Salvador Dalí, Obra completa : Textos autobiogràfics 1, Destino, Fundació Gala-Salvador Dalí, [Figueres], Barcelona, 2003, between pp. 400-401, ill.
- Dalí, Bompiani, [Milà], 2004, p. 158, ill.
- Francisco Javier San Martín, Dalí-Duchamp : una fraternidad oculta, Alianza, Madrid, 2004, p. 114
- Michel Nuridsany, Dalí, Flammarion, Paris, 2004, p. 353
- Dalí, Rizzoli, New York, 2005, p. 158, ill.
- L'Objet surréaliste, Jean-Michel Place, Paris, 2005, pp. 48, 53, 167-168, ill.
- Salvador Dalí, Obra completa : Assaigs 1, Destino, Fundació Gala-Salvador Dalí, [Figueres], Barcelona, 2005, pp. 226, 230-231
- Salvador Dalí, Obra completa : Assaigs 2, Destino, Fundació Gala-Salvador Dalí, [Figueres], Barcelona, 2005, p. 472
- Vicent Santamaria de Mingo, El Pensament de Salvador Dalí en el llindar dels anys trenta, Publicacions de la Universitat Jaume I, Castelló de la Plana, 2005, pp. 264-265, ill.
- The Sources of surrealism, Lund Humphries, Aldershot, Hampshire, Burlington, VT, 2006, pp. 63, 689, ill.
- Salvador Dalí, Obra completa : Entrevistes, Destino, Fundació Gala-Salvador Dalí, [Figueres], Barcelona, 2006, pp. 846, 1519
- L'Objecte català a la llum del surrealisme, Museu Nacional d’Art de Catalunya, Barcelona, 2007, p. 61, ill.
- Magical objects : things and beyond, Galda & Wilch, Madison (Wisconsin), Glienicke (Berlin), 2007, p. 11
- Modern sculpture reader, Henry Moore Institute, Leeds, 2007, p. 105
- Elliott H. King, Dalí, surrealism and cinema, Kamera Books, Harpenden, 2007, p. 39
- Guillermo Carnero, Salvador Dalí y otros estudios sobre arte y vanguardia, Institució Alfons el Magnànim - Diputació de València, [València], 2007, pp. 41, 43
- Johanna Malt, Obscure objects of desire : surrealism, fetishism, and politics, Oxford University Press, New York, 2008, pp. 116-117
- Juan Antonio Ramírez, El Objeto y el aura : (des)orden visual del arte moderno, Akal, Madrid, 2009, p. 123, ill.
- Joan Casellas, "Dalí: artiste de l'action et performeur", Inter, art actuel, num. 101, Hivern 2009, Québec, p. 9
- Keith Aspley, Historical dictionary of surrealism, The Scarecrow Press, Lanham, 2010, pp. 148, 354
- William Jeffett, Dalí doubled : from surrealism to the self : a new critical view of Dalí, The Dalí Museum, St. Petersburg, 2010, p. 94, ill.
- Julia Pine, "Breaking Dalinian Bread: On Consuming the Anthropomorphic, Performative, Ferocious, and Eucharistic Loaves of Salvador Dali", Invisible Culture. An Electronic Journal for Visual Culture, Issue 14: Aesthetes and Eaters - Food and the Arts, 12/2010, p. 88, http://ivc.lib.rochester.edu/breaking-dalinian-bread-on-consuming-the-anthropomorphic-performative-ferocious-and-eucharistic-loaves-of-salvador-dali/
- The Small utopia : ars multiplicata, Fondazione Prada, Milano, 2012, p. 253
- Shûzô Takigushi, Dalí : Tokio, 1939, Notari, Genève, 2012, fig. 47, ill., indirect image
- William Jeffett, Juan José Lahuerta, Picasso-Dalí, Dalí-Picasso, Museu Picasso, Salvador Dalí Museum, Sant Petersburg, Barcelona, 2014, p. 215, ill., indirect image
- Anna Vives, Identidad en tiempos de vanguardia : narcisismo, genio y violencia en la obra de Salvador Dalí y Federico García Lorca, Peter Lang, Bern, 2015, p. 122
- Dawn Ades, Writings on art and anti-art, Ridinghouse, London, 2015, pp. 254, 271, ill., indirect image
- Montse Aguer, Jean-Michel Bouhours, Laura Bartolomé, Bust de dona retrospectiu 1933/1976-1977, Fundació Gala-Salvador Dalí, Figueres, 2015, p. 17, ill.
- Montse Aguer, Jean-Michel Bouhours, Laura Bartolomé, Buste de femme rétrospectif 1933/1976-1977, Fundació Gala-Salvador Dalí, Figueres, 2015, p. 18, ill.
- Montse Aguer, Jean-Michel Bouhours, Laura Bartolomé, Retrospective bust of a woman 1933/1976-1977, Fundació Gala-Salvador Dalí, Figueres, 2015, p. 17, ill.
- Montse Aguer, Jean-Michel Bouhours, Laura Bartolomé, Busto de mujer retrospectivo 1933/1976-1977, Fundació Gala-Salvador Dalí, Figueres, 2015, p. 18, ill.
- Torsten Otte, Salvador Dalí & Andy Warhol : encounters in New York and beyond, Scheidegger & Spiess, Zürich, 2016, p. 218
- Dalí / Duchamp, Royal Academy of Arts, The Dalí Museum, St. Petersburg, FL, London, 2017, p. 114
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