Lectures & Publications

Lucid Dreams

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.

No Place Like Home

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.

Remaking the Readymade...the Conundrum of the Replica

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.

Marcel Duchamp

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: Human Equations

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

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.

Twilight Over Berlin... 1905-1945

Twilight Over Berlin: Masterworks from the Nationalgalerie, 1905-1945

Lectures

Articles: Man Ray

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

Articles: Take Care

Arching Back to Hysteria; chapter in Take Care: Art & Medicine, Catherine Hug, ed.

by Adina Kamien

Der Bogen zurück zur Hysterie (in Hungarian)

by Adina Kamien

Chapters and Essays

Automatism and Rorschach: Probing the Unconscious

by Adina Kamien

Automatism and Rorschach.pdf

(Un)masking Trauma Between the Wars

by Adina Kamien

Joan Miro's Spanish Dancer: Variations on a Theme

by Adina Kamien

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Landing image: Sharon Balaban, Mascara, 2024. Courtesy of the artist.