Man Ray : the artist and his shadows

Summary: 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. Man 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. When at the age of thirty Man Ray relocated to Paris, he, unlike Stieglitz, made a clean break with his past.

Record details

ISBN: 9780300237214
ISBN: 0300237219
ISBN: 9780300262766
ISBN: 0300262760
Physical Description: 1 online resource (viii, 184 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations (some color)
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Computer data.
Publisher: New Haven : Yale University Press, 2021

Content descriptions

General Note:	CatMonthString:october.23 Multi-User.
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 165-176) and index
Formatted Contents Note:	Introduction: Man Ray and His Shadows -- 1. The Radnitsky Clan -- 2. Alfred Stieglitz and the Avant-Garde -- 3. Adon -- 4. Charles Daniel -- 5. Marcel Duchamp -- 6. Tristan Tzara and Francis Picabia -- 7. Everybody Who Rated as Somebody -- 8. Kiki -- 9. Andr�e Breton and Paul �Eluard -- 10. Lee Miller -- 11. Meret Oppenheim -- 12. Juliet Browner -- 13. William Copley -- 14. Man Ray's Own Shadow -- 15. The Shadow of Death -- Epilogue: The Afterlife.
Type of Computer File or Data Note:	Text (HTML), electronic book.
System Details Note:	Mode of access: Internet.
Terms Governing Use and Reproduction Note:	Access requires VIU IP addresses and is restricted to VIU students, faculty and staff. Access restricted by subscription.
Issuing Body Note:	Made available online by JSTOR.