{"product_id":"dal-the-wines-of-gala-9783836567725","title":"Dal. The Wines of Gala","description":"\u003cp\u003eHot on the heels (or lobster claws) of the best-selling Salvador Dal phenomenon  Les dners de Gala  TASCHEN presents the artists equally surreal and sensual viticulture follow-up: The Wines of Gala. A Dalnian 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  the book presents wines of the world in such innovative  Dalesque groupings as Wines of Frivolity  Wines of the Impossible  and Wines of Light. Bursting with imagery  the book features more than 140 illustrations by Dal. Many of these are appropriated artworks  including various classical nudes  all of them reconstructed with suitably Surrealist  provocative touches  like Jean-Franois Millets The Angelus  one of Dals favorite points of reference over the decades. Dal 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. Dal was by this stage a devout Catholic  simultaneously captivated by science  optical illusion  and the atomic age. The first section is dedicated to Ten Divine Dal Wines  an overview of 10 important wine-growing regions  while the second develops Dals revolutionary ordering of wine by emotional experience  instead of by geography or variety. Rather than any prescriptive classification  its a flamboyant  free-flowing manifesto in favor of taste and feeling  as much a multisensory treat as a full-bodied document of Dals late-stage oeuvre  in which the artist both reflected on formative influences and refined his own cultural legacy.Winner of the 2018 Gourmand World Cookbook Awards\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45666016428085,"sku":"ByrdShop_3836567725","price":107.94,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9783836567725.jpg?v=1782415470","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/dal-the-wines-of-gala-9783836567725","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}