Man Ray & Sherrie Levine : a dialogue through objects, images & ideas.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Man Ray, 1890-1976, artist.

Contributor:

Levine, Sherrie, artist.

Meyer, Marion.

List, Larry.

Jablonka Maruani Mercier Gallery, host institution.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Man Ray, 1890-1976--Exhibitions.

Man Ray.

Levine, Sherrie--Exhibitions.

Levine, Sherrie.

Man Ray, 1890-1976.

Genre:

Exhibition catalogs.

Physical Description:

56 unnumbered pages : illustrations (some color) ; 30 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Other Title:

Man Ray and Sherrie Levine

Place of Publication:

Brussels : Jablonka Maruani Mercier Gallery, 2015.

Summary:

In 1918, Man Ray scandalized the art world when he created his first readymade sculptures: an egg beater and an assemblage of metal light reflectors and clothes pins, which he presented as photographs entitled Man and Woman. In 2005 Sherrie Levine re-photographed Man Ray's Man and Woman photos, called them her own art works, and re-scandalized the art world of a new millennium. At the beginning of the 20th century, as a vocabulary of abstraction was being developed, Man Ray produced a new order of images using the new medium of photography, and challenged the world to accept them as art. Forty years later, when minimal abstract art dominated the art world, Sherrie Levine began to use photography as a way of introducing representational imagery back into art. Man Ray's career was drawing to a close just as Levine's career was beginning, but a lively dialogue between this Man (Ray) and Woman (Levine) exists through the sensibilities they share in their relationships with objects, images, and ideas.

Notes:

Introduction by Marion Meyer, essay by Larry List.

Catalog of an exhibition held at Jablonka Maruani Mercier Gallery, Brussels, August 1-31, 2015.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9782930487175

2930487178

OCLC:

919192316