Tiny surrealism

"Although one of the most popular artists of the twentieth century, Salvador Dali; has typically been considered no more than peripheral to the dominant practices of modernism. Roger Rothman's Tiny Surrealism argues that this marginal position itself should be examined as a coherent response to modernism. It demonstrates how Dali;'s practice was in fact organized around the logic of the small and the inconsequential and considers in this context Dali;'s identification not only with the literally small (ants, sewing needles, breadcrumbs, blackheads, etc.) but also with the metaphorically small…