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Dada: Zurich, Berlin, Hannover, Cologne, New York, Paris
Dorothea Dietrich, Brigid Doherty, Sabine Kriebel, Janine Mileaf, Michael Taylor, Matthew Witkovsky, Hans Jean Arp, Tristan Tzara, Marcel Duchamp, Kurt Schwitters, Francis Picabia, Max Ernst
National Gallery of Art, Washington/D.A.P.
National Gallery of Art, Washington/D.A.P.
Now available in paperback, this lavishly illustrated and astonishingly comprehensive volume stands as the definitive study of the influential but deliberately elusive international Dada movement of the early twentieth century. Organized according...
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Duchamp, Man Ray, Picabia
Jennifer Mundy
Tate Publishing
Tate Publishing
This book examines the work of Duchamp, Man Ray, and Picabia, three pioneering figures in the history of modernism. It explores the points of convergence and the parallels in their development throughout their careers. Central to this is their...
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Ramblin' Man: The Life and Times of Woody Guthrie
Ed Cray
W. W. Norton & Company
W. W. Norton & Company
To recall the Depression era is to hear Woody's songs: he was the greatest folk musician of the twentieth century. Born in Oklahoma, Woody Guthrie became a figure larger than life, a folk singer who captured the spirit of his times in his enduring...
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Hokusai: The Man Who Painted a Mountain
Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
A tribute to an artist unafraid to break with tradition. In her own glowing paintings and lucid text, Deborah Kogan Ray tells the fascinating life story of the Japanese artist Hokusai (1760-1849). He rose from poverty, taught himself to draw,...
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Man Ray: Women
Damiani
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...
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Man Ray (Photofile)
Thames & Hudson
Thames & Hudson
One of the most famous artists of the twentieth century, a Dadaist and pioneer of Surrealism, Man Ray (1890-1976) became involved with photography in 1914. He was soon experimenting with different processes—solarization, negative images,...
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Robert Mapplethorpe And The Classical Tradition
Jennifer Blessing, Arkady Ippolitov, Antonio Canova, Benvenuto Cellini, Jacques-Louis David, Jacob Matham, Jan Saenredam, Auguste Rodin
Guggenheim Museum
Guggenheim Museum
Robert Mapplethorpe never concealed his interest in and passion for the human figure in all its sensuous manifestations. His celebrated black-and-white photographs from the later part of the 20th century reveled in the athletic body, the nude body,...
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Man Ray Photographs
Jean-Hubert Martin, Man Ray
Thames & Hudson
Thames & Hudson
"I paint what cannot be photographed, I photograph the things I don't want to paint....I would photograph an idea rather than an object, and a dream rather than an idea." Man Ray's own words suggest the essence of his brilliant, original, and...
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Man Ray: American Artist
Neil Baldwin
Da Capo Press
Da Capo Press
The definitive biography of one of the most influential surrealists and a quintessential modernist. Figure-painter, sculptor, photographer, filmmaker, and collagist, Ray was born Emmanuel Radnitsky in Brooklyn. This book traces his American...
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