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Dali: Artist and Showman
Dali was an international celebrity. He was one of art's great showmen, with a genius for publicity. He created his own distinctive persona and frequently staged his own stunts.
Here is some fabulous footage of the artist in New York, organising an artistic 'happening' in which a replica of a statue by Michaelangelo was paraded along a street in New York. The passers-by, unsurprisingly, seem utterly baffled.
