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	Podcast:		Great Lives
	Episode:		Salvador Dali
	Category:		Society & Culture
	Duration:		00:27:52
	Publish Date:		2013-05-14 11:00:00
	Description:		John Cooper Clarke, poetry's Punk Laureate, nominates Salvador Dali for great life status - melting clocks, bright red sofas in the shape of Mae West's lips, lobster telephones, trademark sharply pointed waxed moustache and all. The Bard of Salford reveals that he has an acutely observant eye when it comes to appreciating the works by Surrealism's Spanish enfant terrible, who first inspired him when a teenager at a Catholic secondary school in the city. But, asks Matthew Parris, was Dali a genius artist or just a gifted marketeer of his own brand image? "Both" comes the resounding answer from John Cooper Clarke and the eminent art historian Dawn Ades, who recalls meeting the artist when she knocked on his door in Figueres, Catalonia, as an unsuspecting student in 1968. Listen in to find out what happened next. Producer: Mark Smalley.
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