Man Ray: Photographs, Paintings, Objects (Schirmer's Visual Library) Book

During the first half of this century, Man Ray (1890-1976) again and again set the international Dada and Surrealist movements afire with his photographs, paintings, and objects. A friend of Marcel Duchamp and many other artists, Man Ray portrayed the creative elite of his time--Salvador Dali, Picasso, Luis Buuel, and James Joyce, among them. He founded modern object art and raised photography to the level at which it was recognized as being an artistic genre in its own right. In addition, he was an acute observer of his times and probably the most influential source of inspiration for the avant-garde movements of the 1920s and 1930s. Many of his works the most significant of which are presented in this book became artistic milestones of an entire epoch. The introductory essay is by the Italian art scholar and critic, Janus.Read More