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Man Ray: When Objects Dream

Man Ray: When Objects Dream - Hardcover

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Availability:In StockContributor:Stephanie D'Alessandro, Stephen C. PinsonPublish date:9/30/2025Pages:338
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Metropolitan Museum of Art New YorkISBN-13:9781588398024ISBN-10:1588398021UPC:9781588398024Book Category:Art, PhotographyBook Subcategory:Individual Artists, Individual Photographers, HistoryBook Topic:Monographs, Modern (Late 19th Century to 1945)Size:10.20 x 9.22 x 1.51 inchesWeight:3.8338Product ID:SCCVQGBZ8W
The first in-depth study of Man Ray's groundbreaking rayographs of the 1920s and their interconnections with his Dada and Surrealist works

This is the first in-depth study of the rayograph (or camera-less photograph) pioneered by Man Ray (1890-1976) in 1920s Paris, between the Dada and Surrealist movements. The transformative, magical qualities of these experiments led the poet Tristan Tzara to describe them as capturing moments "when objects dream." Oscillating between representation and abstraction, the rayograph was ambiguous in its making and subject matter, encapsulating avant-garde concerns of the day. This book highlights connections and shared motifs between the rayographs and Man Ray's paintings, photographs, drawings, objects, and films. Stephanie D'Alessandro and Stephen C. Pinson analyze the artist's innovative methods while also exploring key themes across a broad range of his art production, such as chance, indeterminacy, transformation, and preoccupation with dualities.

Published by The Metropolitan Museum of Art/Distributed by Yale University Press

Exhibition Schedule:

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
(September 14, 2025-February 1, 2026)
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Metropolitan Museum of Art New YorkISBN-13:9781588398024ISBN-10:1588398021UPC:9781588398024Book Category:Art, PhotographyBook Subcategory:Individual Artists, Individual Photographers, HistoryBook Topic:Monographs, Modern (Late 19th Century to 1945)Size:10.20 x 9.22 x 1.51 inchesWeight:3.8338Product ID:SCCVQGBZ8W
Stephanie D'Alessandro is the Leonard A. Lauder Curator of Modern Art and Senior Research Coordinator in the Department of Modern and Contemporary Art, and Stephen C. Pinson is curator in the Department of Photographs, both at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art New York

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