Man Ray: Writings on Art
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| Rating | : | 4.30 (693 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1606064584 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 424 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-05-20 |
| Language | : | English |
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Kennerrey said Addicting. Man Ray is just as brilliant as a writer as he was a photographer, sculptor, painter and on and on This is a treasure trove, and a marvelous compliment to Ray's autobiography, "Self Portrait." Beautifully arranged and lovingly compiled. I'm addicted to it. Bravo.
Man Ray: Writings on Art fills a conspicuous gap in scholarship on the artist and his period. 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. It brings together his most significant writings, many of them published here for the first time. These occasional
“…a carefully shaped collection of texts…”—Publishers Weekly