Book Description

Artist, Filmmaker, Poet, Surrealist, Man Ray was an unusually versatile artist, a trait not limited to his studio.As a lover, he was associated with some of the most famous and talked about women of his day.Some artists prefer to conceal their sexual partners, but Man Ray was the complete opposite.His paintings and, especially, his photographs are the journal of his sexual and emotional development traced her in this min-biography. ... Read more

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Why is a description of Man Ray put into a description of a book about Ingres?

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Book Description

Preface by Christina Orr-Cahall
Essay by David F. Setford

In association with the Norton Museum of Art. Man Ray's Man Rays presents the core of the personal collection left by this hugely influential Dadaist and Surrealist artist to his family. This unique spiralbound edition showcases a dynamic selection of work from the Man Ray Trust, including color reproductions of his early paintings and littleknown objets d'art: celebrated photographs--including Le Violin d'Ingres and portraits of Pablo Picasso and Jean Cocteau--and a number of inventive and often humorous selfportraits. Limited to a printing of 2,000 copies, Man Ray's Man Rays presents the diverse and idiosyncratic range of works that remained in Man Ray's possession throughout his life, offering invaluable insight into one of the most provocative artists of the early twentieth century
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