Title: Salvador Dalí's Dream of Venus
First published: 2002
Description: "Life magazine wrote that one funhouse at the 1939 New York World's Fair stood out among the others: Salvador Dali's Dream of Venus.".

"The building's modern expressionist exterior, with an entrance framed by a woman's legs, and shocking interior, including the bare-breasted "living liquid ladies" who swam inside the tanks, was a controversial sensation. The funhouse was so successful that it reopened for a second season after the fair closed. But once torn down it faded from memory, and its outlandishness became the stuff of urban myth.

Now, more than sixty years later, a collection of Dream of Venus images by noted photographer Eric Schaal has been discovered and presented here in its depth and beauty. In stunning black-and-white and early Kodachrome, the photographs show both the construction and the completion of the funhouse - from Dali painting a melting clock to showgirls parading for their audience.

Salvador Dali's Dream of Venus reveals not only a mind-boggling work of architecture, but also a unique creation by one of the most fertile imaginations of the twentieth century."--BOOK JACKET.
Subjects: Criticism and interpretation, Exhibitions, Installations (Art), New York World's Fair (1939-1940), Surrealism, New York World's Fair (1939-1940 : New York, N.Y.), Dali, salvador, 1904-1989, New York World's Fair (1939-1940 : New York, N.Y.) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n82144169, Exhibition buildings, New York World's Fair (1939-1940 : New York, N.Y.) (uri) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n82144169 (uri) http://viaf.org/viaf/sourceID/LC|n82144169
Places: New York, New York (State)
People: Eric Schaal, Salvador Dalí (1904-1989)
LC classification: N7113.D3 A64 2002