Man Ray : the artist and his shadows / Arthur Lubow.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lubow, Arthur, author.

Series:

Jewish Lives

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Man Ray, 1890-1976.

Man Ray.

Artists--United States--Biography.

Artists.

Jewish artists--United States--Biography.

Jewish artists.

United States.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (217 pages)

Place of Publication:

New Haven ; London : Yale University Press, [2021]

Summary:

A biography of the elusive but celebrated Dada and Surrealist artist and photographer connecting his Jewish background to his life and art 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.

Contents:

Cover

Half Title

Title

Copyright

Dedication

Contents

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. André Breton and Paul Éluard

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

Acknowledgments

Notes

Index.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-300-26276-0

OCLC:

1263025510