Man Ray was one of many leading artists of the avant-garde of Twenties and Thirties Paris. A key figure within the Dada and Surrealist transferments, his works spanned various media, including movie. He was a leading exponent of the Cinéma Pur, or “Pure Cinema,” which rejected such “bourgeois” conceits as character, setting, and plot. Immediately…
Along with his cane, his well-known waxed mustache, and his behavior of taking unusual animals for walks, Salvador Dalí would seem to have cultivated his personal photographability. However taking a picture of the person who stood as a living definition of popular surrealism wasn’t a activity to be approached casually — especially not for Philippe…
The Soviet Union’s repressive state censorship went to absurd lengths to control what its citizens learn, seen, and listened to, resembling the virtually comical elimination of purged former comrades from photographs during Stalin’s reign. When it got here to aesthetics, Stalinism mostly purged extra avant-garde tendencies from the humanities and literature in favor of didactic…
It could surprise none of us to come across a younger artist looking to forged off his previous and make his mark on the culture in a spot like Williamsburg. However within the case of Man Ray, Williamsburg was his previous. One should remember that the Brooklyn of right now bears little resemblance to the…
Earlier than his signature works like The Atrocity Exhibition, Crash, and Excessive-Rise, J. G. Ballard published three apocalyptic novels, The Drowned World, The Burning World, and The Crystal World. Every of these books provides a different imaginative and prescient of large-scale environmalestal disaster, and the final even professionalvides a clue as to its inspiration. Or…