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MAN RAY: UNCONCERNED BUT NOT INDIFFERENT
LA FáBRICA
U.S. $65.00 | CAN $65
ISBN: 9788496466807 | TRADE
PUB DATE: 12/31/2009 | In stock

MAN RAY: WOMEN
DAMIANI
U.S. $49.00 | CAN $49
ISBN: 9788889431320 | TRADE
PUB DATE: 3/1/2006 | In stock

MAN RAY
APERTURE
U.S. $12.50 | CAN $12.5
ISBN: 9780893817435 | TRADE
PUB DATE: 6/15/2005 | Not available

MARCEL DUCHAMP/MAN RAY: 50 YEARS OF ALCHEMY
SEAN KELLY GALLERY, NEW YORK
U.S. $45.00 | CAN $45
ISBN: 9780966215823 | TRADE
PUB DATE: 2/15/2005 | Awaiting stock

  

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MAN RAY
CHARTA
U.S. $30.00 | CAN $30
ISBN: 9788881583232 | TRADE
PUB DATE: 8/2/2001 | Not available

ARTBOOK CURATED LIBRARY

A DADA LIBRARY

A selection of forthcoming, new, and backlist titles on Dada, featuring such key figures as Key figures include Hans (or Jean) Arp, Erwin Blumenfeld, Kurt Schwitters, Hannah Höch, Max Ernst, Francis Picabia, Man Ray and Marcel Duchamp.

Man Ray

Man Ray: Unconcerned But Not Indifferent

Edited and text by Noriko Fuku, John P. Jacob.
Published by La Fábrica

Unconcerned But Not Indifferent is one of the most beautifully produced and revelatory monographs on Man Ray ever published. It draws exclusively on one of the largest Man Ray archives, that of the Man Ray Trust, which has remained largely unexcavated since it was brought to the U.S. in the late 1990s, and whose full scope has never before been published. The book is structured chronologically across the four phases of Man Ray's working life, in New York, Paris, Los Angeles and Paris again. Works reproduced here range from typographic studies done in 1908, through paintings, objects and sculptures to Man Ray's pioneering photography, from the "Rayographs" (abstract photographs produced from found objects) and "Solarizations" (a procedure of tonal reversion developed by Man Ray and Lee Miller), to his fantastic portraits of André Derain, Erik Satie, Juan Gris, Pablo Picasso, Jean Cocteau, Hans Bellmer, Joyce Mansour and many others--plus many rare images from his L.A. years. It also features supplementary materials to works and a useful chronology. As an object, Unconcerned But Not Indifferent is unmistakably a labor of love, from its contents to its binding (the cloth front board features an embossed emblem of the artist's bowler hat, and the paper for both plates and text is especially fetching), and a model of what a monograph can be.
The artist known as Man Ray was born Emmanuel Radnitzky in Philadelphia, in 1890. A nomadic soul, like his lifelong friend Marcel Duchamp, Man Ray relocated many times throughout his life, and likewise stopped short of joining the ranks of either Dada or Surrealism, though he was informally close to both movements. He died in 1976 and was buried in in the Cimetière du Montparnasse in Paris. His epitaph reads: "unconcerned, but not indifferent."

MAN RAY: UNCONCERNED BUT NOT INDIFFERENT
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Man Ray: Women

Edited by Valerio Dehò.
Published by Damiani

Man Ray found the surreal in the commonplace, particularly in the female form, and this has made his photography some of the world's most accessible and recognizable: his ubiquitous La Violin d'Ingres creates a cello from a woman's torso with the addition of curliqued vents inked on her sides; his classic image of shining cinematic tears glistening on a powdered cheek has been tucked into mirror frames all over the world. This collection of more than 130 pictures dated between 1920 and 1950 covers not only Ray's work as one of the world's leading avant-garde artists--he was a tireless experimenter who participated in the Cubist, Dadaist and Surrealist art movements--but also his commercial work. It includes fashion photography and advertising images; portraits of many artists, including Marcel Proust, Marcel Duchamp and Andre Breton; and a portfolio of 26 Femmes. Art dealer Giorgio Marconi, who met May Ray in 1966 in Milan, contributes an insightful interview.

MAN RAY: WOMEN
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