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Man Ray's Montparnasse / by Herbert R. Lottman.
LIBRA N6537.R3 L67 2001
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lottman, Herbert R.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Man Ray, 1890-1976.
- Man Ray.
- Artists--United States--Biography.
- Artists.
- Expatriate artists.
- United States.
- France.
- Photographers--United States--Biography.
- Photographers.
- Expatriate artists--France--Biography.
- Montparnasse (Paris, France)--Intellectual life--20th century.
- Montparnasse (Paris, France).
- Paris (France)--Intellectual life--20th century.
- Local Subjects:
- Paris (France)--Intellectual life--20th century.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- 261 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : H.N. Abrams, 2001.
- Summary:
- For the first thirty years of the twentieth century, the streets surrounding the intersection of the boulevard du Montparnasse and the boulevard Raspail marked the center of avant-garde Europe. Man Ray's Montparnasse introduces the reader to this small section of Paris on the Left Bank during a time of artistic ferment and experimentation, of private affairs that became public ones, and of political and social change.
- Man Ray, the renowned photographer, was there to document it all. His world was filled with artists, writers, and poets, and his camera was his key, allowing him access to cafes, salons, artists' studios, and writers' homes. Within a year of his arrival, he was invited to be Gertrude Stein's official portraitist and to record the image of Marcel Proust on his deathbed. He photographed Pablo Picasso and Peggy Guggenheim, made films alongside the Dadaists, and played chess with Marcel Duchamp. Illustrated with Man Ray's own photographs, this book chronicles a legendary time and place.
- Author Herbert Lottman leads the reader through the winding streets of Montparnasse, past the usual tourist attractions and into a vanished world. Quick-paced and intensely readable, his text traces the threads connecting the diverse artistic movements and complicated, often turbulent, personal relationships that bound these groups together and, at times, tore them apart. By interweaving the lives and works of the artists with Man Ray's stunning photographs, Lottman has created a vivid history of life at the center of one of the twentieth century's seminal artistic moments.
- Contents:
- 1 The Visitor 10
- 2 The Quarter 21
- 3 Flashback 29
- 4 Data Interlude: Zurich-Paris-New York 41
- 5 Moving in 49
- 6 Man Ray, Photographer 63
- 7 Portrait Gallery 75
- 8 The Return to Reason 85
- 9 La Vie Parisienne 95
- 10 Amusements 104
- 11 The Surrealist Revolution 113
- 12 Friends and Acquaintances 119
- 13 A Place for Painters 129
- 14 Hands Off Love 136
- 15 Montparnasse Memories 147
- 16 The Last of Kiki 156
- 17 Lovely Lee Miller 163
- 18 The Battles of the Thirties 174
- 19 Exchanges 182
- 20 Retrospective 193
- 21 Causes Celebres 204
- 22 Expanding Montparnasse 212
- 23 Montparnasse Goes to War 219
- 24 Everybody Out of Montparnasse 227.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [244]-255) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0810943336
- OCLC:
- 45841478
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