Man Ray
Subtitle: writings on art
By: edited by Jennifer Mundy, with Andrew Strauss and Edouard Sebline, consulting editors
Contributors: Mundy, Jennifer, editor; Strauss, Andrew (Vice President of Sotheby's France), editor; Sebline, Edouard, editor; Getty Research Institute
Publisher: Getty Publications
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 456
ISBN-13: 9781606064580
Other titles: Writings on art
Work titles: Works
Description: "Man Ray (1890-1976) was a pioneer of the Dada movement in the United States and France and a central protagonist of Surrealism. Today he is one of the best-known American artists of the twentieth century, celebrated above all for his innovative and often seductively glamorous photography. Surprisingly, given Man Ray's key role in the history of early-twentieth-century Modernism, a comprehensive collection of his writings on art has not been published in English until now. Man Ray: Writings on Art fills a conspicuous gap in scholarship on the artist and his period. It brings together his most significant writings, many of them published here for the first time. These occasionally quixotic texts, which include artist books, essays, interviews, letters, and visual poems, reveal the incredible scale of the artist's output and the remarkable continuity of his aesthetic and political beliefs. This volume offers a long overdue vision of Man Ray as someone who used words both as a creative medium and as a means of articulating ideas about the nature and value of art. With richly reproduced illustrations, it provides powerful insight not only to scholars of art history and academics, but also to working artists and those who count themselves as Man Ray fans"--ECIP data view.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Ridgefield and New York; title: New York Dada; title: Paris; title: Hollywood album; title: Hollywood; title: Paris again.