Self Portrait Man Ray Dada Surrealism Montparnasse Duchamp 1963 1st Edition HCDJ

by Man Ray

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First edition

CONDITION: Near Fine / Near Fine. Unmarked. First Edition. 1963. Little, Brown, in association w/ The Atlantic Monthly Press; Boston. Hardcover. NF black cloth, gold and copper spine lettering, corner tips sharp; mild softening, small chips and nicks to spine ends, minor edge wear. NF dust jacket, unclipped. Photo frontispiece and 36 halftone illustration plates by Man Ray. Octavo. Man Ray's autobiography, from Brooklyn and New York Dada through Paris Surrealism and Montparnasse to his Hollywood years and return to France. Ships in a box, insured, w/tracking. SYNOPSIS: Self Portrait is the autobiography of the American artist and photographer Man Ray, tracing his life from his early years in Brooklyn and Ridgefield, New Jersey, through his immersion in the Paris Dada and Surrealist circles, a ten-year interlude in Hollywood and his return to post-war France. Narrative chapters recount his collaborations w/ Marcel Duchamp, his development of camera-less rayographs and solarized darkroom processes, his presence in interwar Parisian bohemia and his wartime exile in Los Angeles. The memoir functions simultaneously as personal narrative and as documentation of twentieth-century avant-garde circles. Little, Brown and Company published the book in Boston in 1963 in association w/ The Atlantic Monthly Press. A photographic frontispiece captures Man Ray in Hollywood in 1947, complemented by halftone plates reproducing his paintings, rayographs, assemblages and portraits from across hi

• Publisher: Little, Brown and Company; The Atlantic Monthly Press
• Year: 1963
• Condition: Fine

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