A Cinematic Artist: The Films of Man Ray (Peter Lang Ltd.) - Softcover

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The American artist Man Ray was one of the most influential figures of the historical avant-garde, contributing significantly to the development of both Dadaism and Surrealism. Whilst his pioneering work in photography assured him international acclaim, his activity in other areas, notably film, is to this day both unknown and undervalued.
During the 1920s Man Ray made four short experimental films and collaborated on a host of other projects with people such as Marcel Duchamp, Fernand Léger, René Clair and Hans Richter. These works, along with a series of cinematic essays and home movies made during the 1920s and 1930s, represent the most important contribution to the development of an alternative mode of filmmaking in the early twentieth century. This book explores Man Ray’s cinematic interactions from the perspective of his interdisciplinary artistic sensibility, creating links between film, photography, painting, poetry, music, architecture, dance and sculpture. By exposing his preoccupation with form, and his ambiguous relationship with the politics and aesthetics of the Dada and Surrealist movements, the author paints an intimate and complex portrait of Man Ray the filmmaker.

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The Author: Kim Knowles is Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at the University of Kent. She was awarded her Ph.D. from the University of Edinburgh in 2007. As well as a number of articles on the films and photography of Man Ray, she has written on other avant-garde filmmakers such as Peter Rose and Jeanne Liotta and has contributed to the Metzler Lexikon Avantgarde (2009). She curates experimental film programmes, including at the Edinburgh International Film Festival and Diversions Film Festival.
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«Kim Knowles’s reassessment of Man Ray as a film-maker is a comprehensive, lucidly argued and scrupulously documented study, written in a clear and lively style. It will provide the reader with an invaluable critical resource on Dada, Surrealism and the 1920s avant-garde cinema.» (Elza Adamowicz, Queen Mary, University of London)
«Man Ray challenged the norms of cinema, to explore the erotics and poetics of the eye. Kim Knowles’s detailed and original account of surrealism’s most enigmatic film-lyricist puts Man Ray in context and traces the lasting influence of his filmic vision.» (Al Rees, Royal College of Art)

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