Keys to creativity, dreams and their visual expressions attest to the power of the imaginary. This book, like the major exhibition it accompanies, focuses on the mysterious and often fantastical images experienced in dreams.
The accompanying book to No Place Like Home, an experimental 2017 exhibition celebrating the centennial of Marcel Duchamp's iconic Fountain, brought objects-turned-artworks into a mock home within the Israel Museum.
Replication and originality are central concepts in the artistic oeuvres of Marcel Duchamp and Man Ray. Remaking the Readymade reveals the underlying and previously unexplored processes and rationales for the collaboration between Duchamp, Man Ray, and Arturo Schwarz on the replication of readymades and objects.
A catalog documenting an exhibition of Marcel Duchamp’s editioned readymades at Gagosian Gallery, New York, replicating his American debut at Cordier & Ekstrom in the same building in 1965 and including new essays.
Man Ray's Shakespearean Equations―a series of paintings he considered to be the pinnacle of his creative vision―has long been a puzzle of Surrealism. What meaningful common thread could possibly link Shakespeare, mathematics and art? This volume sets out to unravel the puzzle by beginning with photographs of mathematical models that Man Ray took at the Institut Henri Poincaré in Paris in the 1930s.
Bodyscapes examines the ways in which the human body has served as a structure to organize knowledge and understand the world. Bringing together more than 150 works dating from the eighth century BCE to the present in a wide variety of media, this lavishly illustrated exhibition catalogue comprises four scholarly essays, short texts illuminating individual works, and a rich image album, interspersed with maps, calendars, and other artifacts from different cultures and periods.
Man Ray's Surrealist Chessboard
by Adina Kamien
Hybrids and Automatons - Man Ray
by Adina Kamien
El Damero surrealista de Man Ray (in Spanish)
by Adina Kamien
Staging Displacement: Man Ray's Still Life Composition...
by Adina Kamien
Duchamp, Man Ray, and Replication
by Adina Kamien
Humanizing the Object : Man Ray’s Subversion of Classical and Mathematical Models
by Adina Kamien
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Landing image: Sharon Balaban, Mascara, 2024. Courtesy of the artist.