BOOKS ON THE ARTIST MAN RAY
Los Angeles County Museum of Art. MAN RAY. 148 pp., includes texts by Ray, Paul Eluard, Marcel Duchamp, Andre Breton, Tristan Tzara et al., illustrated in b&w and color. 4to, wraps. 1966.
Item nr. 4482
$ 85.00
Foresta, Merry et al. Perpetual Motif: The Art of MAN RAY. 348 pp.text with 47 color and 227 duotone illustrations. Folio, cloth. New York, Abbeville, 1988.
The first major book on the mysterious and eclectic Man Ray is reprinted after having been out of print for several years now. Specialists examine all aspects of his work in all its forms and also discuss his connections with radical artists and politicos from pre-World War I in New York to post-World War II in Hollywood, with the avant-garde underground and the haute-monde in Paris in between.
Item nr. 14771
$ 85.00
Hermann, Brigitte. MAN RAY: Objets de Mon Affection. Preface by Jean-Hubert Martin; 192 pp. text with 200 b&w photographs. Includes text by the artist. Large 4to, cloth. Paris, Sers, 1983.
Catalogue Raisonné.
Item nr. 22948
$ 475.00
Ray, Man and Andre Breton. MAN RAY 1890-1976. With text (in English) by Man Ray and Andre Breton. 351 pp., with approximately 300 full-page b&w reproductions. 4to, cloth. New York, Abrams, 1995.
This beautifully printed and elegantly presented catalogue accompanies the first Belgian retrospective of Man Ray's work. Included are over three-hundred photographs (most of them full-page and printed in duotone), fifty paintings, collages and drawings, sixty objects, and a wide range of graphic work and documents. The text (in English) is composed of several short statements by André Breton and by the artist.
Item nr. 40181
$ 175.00
WASHINGTON, D.C. Phillips Collection. Americans in Paris: Man Ray, Gerald Murphy, Stuart Davis, and Alexander Calder. Text by Guy Davenport, Elizabeth Garrity Ellis and Elizabeth Turner. 171 pp with 39 color and 103 b&w illustrations. 4to, cloth. 1996.
Documents and describes the work and influence of these four notable American artists of the avant-garde in Paris during the 1920s. Produced in conjunction with an exhibition at the Phillips Collection.
Item nr. 44350
$ 50.00
Tashjian, Dickran et al. MAN RAY Paris/L.A. 126 pp., illustrated throughout in colour and b&w. 4to, wraps. Marcola, Smart Art Press, 1996.
American-born expatriat artist Man Ray (1890-1976) lived in Southern California from 1941 to 1950. This slender volume is a visual account of that important period; the artist immersed himself in Hollywood life, spent time with Max Ernst and Igor Stravinsky, met his future wife (Juliette), and produced a significant body of work. This catalogue documents paintings, sculptures, drawings, chess sets, and letters from this period. Most notably, it includes previously unpublished photographs of locales and personalities that were part of the current scene.
Item nr. 46376
$ 30.00
Perlein, Gilbert and Daniella Palazzoli. MAN RAY Retrospective 1912-1976. 343 pp. with approximately 250 color and b&w illustrations. Large 4to, wraps. Nice, Musee d'Art Moderne, 1997.
Item nr. 51248
$ 150.00
Lottman, Herbert R. MAN RAY's Montparnasse. 264 pp., 53 b&w illustrations. 8vo, boards. New York, Harry N. Abrams, 2001.
Item nr. 97747
$ 15.00
Naumann, Francis M., with an essay by Gail Stavitsky. Conversion to Modernism: The Early Work of MAN RAY. xx and 268 pp., 206 color and b&w illustrations. 4to, cloth. New Brunswick, NJ and London, Rutgers University Press in association with the Montclair Art Museum, 2003.
This book concentrates on Man Ray's work between 1907 and 1917; it is the first comprehensive treatment of these important, early years.
Item nr. 103030
$ 65.00
Baum, Timothy. MAN RAY'S Paris Portraits: 1921-39. Revised edition. 8 page introduction followed by 56 b&w portrait plates. 4to, cloth. St. Petersburg (Florida), Salvador Dali Museum, 1997.
Item nr. 111466
$ 50.00
Iles, Chrissie (essay). MARCEL DUCHAMP - MAN RAY. 50 Years of Alchemy. 130 pp., illustrated in color and b&w. 8vo, boards. New York, Sean Kelly Gallery, 2004.
Item nr. 115592
$ 45.00
Deho, Valerio (editor). MAN RAY: Women. 152 pp., roughly 130 b&w plates. 4to, boards. Bologna, Damiani, 2006.
This collection of more than 130 pictures date between 1920 and 1950, covering Man Ray's experimental artistic and commercial work. It includes fashion photography and advertising images, portraits of artists (including Proust, Duchamp, and Breton), and a portfolio, 26 Femmes . Published to accompany an exhibition at Merano Arte, Merano. Text in English.
Item nr. 118824
$ 49.00
Jacob, John and Noriko Fuku. MAN RAY: Despreocupado pero no Indiferente / Unconcerned but not Indifferent. 392 pp., hundreds of color and b&w illustrations. 4to, cloth. Madrid, La Fabrica, 2007.
Text in Spanish and English.
Item nr. 126080
$ 95.00
MUNDY, JENNIFER (editor) et al. Duchamp, Man Ray, Picabia. 247 pp., 217 color and b&w illustrations. 4to, wraps. London, Tate Publishing, 2008.
Exhibition in London and Barcelona.
Item nr. 128018
$ 55.00
Vanci-Perahim, Marina. MAN RAY. 64 pp., 59 color and b&w plates. 4to, cloth. Barcelona, Ediciones Poligrafa, 2007.
Text in English.
Item nr. 128654
$ 50.00
Conrath-Scholl, Gabriele [foreword] et al. MAN RAY und L. Fritz Gruber: Jahre einer Freundschaft 1956 -1976 / Man Ray and L. Fritz Gruber: Years of a Friendship 1956 _ 1976. 214 pages, illustrated throughout, mostly in b&w. 4to, wraps. Cologne, Die Photographische Sammlung / SK Stiftung Kultur, and Gottingen, Steidl & Partners, 2008.
The decades-long association of Man Ray and Fritz Gruber, a collector and curator, was one of personal and professional friendship. With an unsurpassed scholarly knowledge of Man Ray's work, over the course of several decades Gruber and his wife Renate put together the collection that is the basis of this book. In addition to Man Ray's photographs, sculptural work and objects, the book includes extensive correspondence between Man Ray and Gruber.
Accompanies an exhibition. Text in German and English.
Item nr. 130883
$ 75.00
Jacob, John P. (editor and preface) and Merry A. Foresta (introduction). MAN RAY: Trees + Flowers - Insects Animals. 368 pages, roughly 320 color and b&w plates. 4to, cloth. Gottingen, Steidl, 2009.
These images, drawn from the collection of the Man Ray Trust, illuminate a little-known body of work which functioned as a visual index to the themes and motifs Man Ray employed in his better-known images. Featured here is a series of landscapes from the 1920s through the 1950s, bearing the distinct influence of Eugene Atget.
Item nr. 135734
$ 60.00
Klein, Mason, et al. Alias MAN RAY. xvi and 240 pages, roughly 200 color and 55 b&w illustrations. 4to, cloth-backed boards. New York, The Jewish Museum in association with New Haven and London, Yale University Press, 2009.
Exhibition at The Jewish Museum, New York.
Item nr. 138571
$ 50.00
Geneva. Sonia Zannttacci. MAN RAY: Transformations - Transfigurations. 52 pages, illustrated throughout in color and b&w. 4to, wraps. 1990.
Text in French.
Item nr. 140803
$ 35.00
Cheroux, Clement (editor) and Quentin Bajac. MAN RAY Portraits. Paris-Hollywood- Paris. From the Man Ray Archives of the Centre Pompidou. Includes texts by Man Ray; 314 pages with 32 color and 485 duotone plates. 4to, boards. Munich, Schirmer/Mosel, 2011.
Item nr. 143339
$ 78.00
Prodger, Phillip, with Lynda Roscoe Hartigan and Antony Penrose. MAN RAY LEE MILLER: Partners in Surrealism. 160 pages, roughly 100 color and b&w plates. 4to, boards. Salem, Peabody Essex Museum, in association with London and New York, Merrell, 2011.
Exhibition in Salem, Montclair and San Francisco.
Item nr. 143538
$ 39.95
Comis, Guido, Marco Fanciolli and Janus (curators). MAN RAY. 328 pages, over 362 color and b&w illustrations. 4to, boards. Milan, Skira, 2011.
Exhibition in Lugano. Text in English.
Item nr. 144154
$ 70.00
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