The United States, where he resided from 1940-48, offered Dalí a wealth of opportunities to work with fellow artists and artisans to create a breath-taking array of art works in every conceivable medium – in the process of which Dalí reinvented himself as a true Renaissance man. He published an acclaimed autobiography, an arcane novel, and a Dalinian newspaper; he worked on numerous cinematic projects in Hollywood; he wrote the librettos and designed the costumes and sets for ballets; he entered the advertising industry with gusto; he created astonishing jewels, designed architectural installations, illustrated the literary classics, pushed photography into new realms and embraced the opportunities that television offered for mass communication. Meanwhile his painting entered a new phase, fusing an intense study of the Renaissance old masters with meditations on atomic theory in a post-nuclear world.