You might not know much about Kiki de Montparnasse, but a new book paints her as an influential figure of the Parisian avant-garde. Mark Braude, Kiki Man Ray: Art, Love, and Rivalry in 1920s Paris ...
The 86-year-old Man Ray had outlived most of his closest contemporaries when he died in Paris in 1976. Tristan Tzara, the impresario of Dada, conked off on Christmas Day 1963. André Breton, the petty ...
KIKI MAN RAY. By Mark Braude. W.W. Norton. 304 pages. $30. You may have seen the famous picture of her nude back marked with the sound holes of a violin, which recently sold for $12.4 million, the ...
Man Ray was the ultimate networker. From the time he was twenty-three years old, when he asked Alfred Stieglitz to sit for a painted portrait, he had an uncanny knack for befriending important people.