Man Ray : the artist and his shadows / Arthur Lubow.
Series: Jewish lives (New Haven, Conn.)Publisher: London : Yale University Press, 2021Description: viii, 184 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 22 cmISBN:- 9780300237214
- 0300237219
- 23 770.92
- 23 920
Item type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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Loanable Book | Library | Biography | 920 RAY (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 000436954 |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 165-176) and index.
Man Ray (1890-1976), a founding father of Dada and a key player in French Surrealism, is one of the central artists of the twentieth century. He is also one of the most elusive. In this new biography, journalist and critic Arthur Lubow uses Man Ray?s Jewish background as one filter to understand his life and art.0 0Man Ray began life as Emmanuel Radnitsky, the eldest of four children born in Philadelphia to a mother from Minsk and a father from Kiev. When he was seven the family moved to the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn, where both parents worked as tailors. Defying his parents? expectations that he earn a university degree, Man Ray instead pursued his vocation as an artist, embracing the modernist creed of photographer and avant-garde gallery owner Alfred Stieglitz.00When at the age of thirty Man Ray relocated to Paris, he, unlike Stieglitz, made a clean break with his past.
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