Dali's amazing how-to book on becoming a genius and mastering the art, science, alchemy and religion of oil painting. Not just a concise technical treatise on the inside operations of paint and painting preparations (although it is, in fact, that, and the best work of this kind I have ever found in forty years of looking), this book is also, as the title relates, about magic, ancient magic, secret magic, Dali's own personal magic. I state uncategorically that I consider this book to be a miracle.
Here is a video presentation regarding Secret Number 3... But the book must actually be held in one's hands (hard cover edition, please) to get the effect that Dali has of speaking directly to both the reader and a mirror at the same time.
Secret Number 3: the Slumber with a Key
