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Genius or Clown? Paris Show Weighs Dali Legacy
by Naharnet Newsdesk 20 November 2012, 11:01

Twirling his waxed moustache, Salvador Dali's larger-than-life figure was beamed into millions of homes in the 1960s, his televised antics bringing huge fame, but burning his bridges with the art world.

Now a major new Paris exhibit aims to reinstate that legacy, putting Dali's media stunts -- burying himself in banknotes, signing books wired to a brain monitor, even ad campaigns -- on equal footing with his surrealist painting.

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