Hot on the heels (or lobster claws) of the best-selling Salvador Dal\u00ed phenomenon, Les d\u00eeners de Gala, TASCHEN presents the artist\u2019s equally surreal and sensual viticulture follow-up: The Wines of Gala. A Dal\u00ednian take on pleasures of the grape and a coveted collectible, the book sets out to organize wines \u201caccording to the sensations they create in our very depths.\u201d Through eclectic metrics like production method, weight, and color, the book presents wines of the world in such innovative, Dal\u00edesque groupings as \u201cWines of Frivolity,\u201d \u201cWines of the Impossible,\u201d and \u201cWines of Light.\u201d<\/p>\n
Bursting with imagery, the book features more than 140 illustrations by Dal\u00ed. Many of these are appropriated artworks, including various classical nudes, all of them reconstructed with suitably Surrealist, provocative touches, like Jean-Fran\u00e7ois Millet\u2019s The Angelus, one of Dal\u00ed\u2019s favorite points of reference over the decades. Dal\u00ed also included what is now considered one of the greatest works from his late \u201cNuclear Mystic\u201d 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. Dal\u00ed was by this stage a devout Catholic, simultaneously captivated by science, optical illusion, and the atomic age.<\/p>\n
The first section is dedicated to \u201cTen Divine Dal\u00ed Wines,\u201d an overview of 10 important wine-growing regions, while the second develops Dal\u00ed\u2019s revolutionary ordering of wine by emotional experience, instead of by geography or variety. Rather than any prescriptive classification, it\u2019s a flamboyant, free-flowing manifesto in favor of taste and feeling, as much a multisensory treat as a full-bodied document of Dal\u00ed\u2019s late-stage oeuvre, in which the artist both reflected on formative influences and refined his own cultural legacy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Hot on the heels (or lobster claws) of the best-selling Salvador Dal\u00ed phenomenon, Les d\u00eeners de Gala, TASCHEN presents the artist\u2019s equally surreal and sensual viticulture follow-up: The Wines of Gala. A Dal\u00ednian take on pleasures of the grape and a coveted collectible, the book sets out to organize wines \u201caccording to the sensations they…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":23149,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[4522,4518],"product_tag":[1702,6135,1146,524,929],"class_list":["post-23160","product","type-product","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","product_cat-art-en","product_cat-cookery-en","product_tag-artists","product_tag-cookery","product_tag-great-masters-en","product_tag-painting-en","product_tag-wine-en","pa_author_att-hans-werner-holzwarth-en","pa_cover-hardcover","pa_format-212-x-302-cm-en","pa_isbn-9783836567725-en","pa_language-eng","pa_pages-296-en","pa_published-2017-11-21-en","pa_publisher-taschen-en-en","first","instock","sold-individually","shipping-taxable","purchasable","product-type-simple"],"yoast_head":"\n