Self Portrait (First Edition w/ DJ 1963) NF/NF
Language: English
Published by Little, Brown and Company in association with The Atlantic Monthly Press, Boston, 1963
- First Edition
- Hardcover
- Used
Seller: Coffee Cat Books, Chapel Hill, NC, U.S.A.Coffee Cat Books
AbeBooks seller since September 15, 2021
Condition: Used - Near fine
US$ 249.75
Quantity: 1 available
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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. NF dust jacket, small chips & nicks, creasing to spine ends, bit, overall light edge, shelf wear. 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 & HISTORY: 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 his career. The text records the development of solarization, experimental cinema and mechanical sculpture through first-person exposition. First-hand accounts detail central figures of the interwar avant-garde, including Marcel Duchamp, Francis Picabia, Pablo Picasso, Gertrude Stein, James Joyce and Kiki de Montparnasse. Man Ray, born Emmanuel Radnitzky in 1890, contributed to the Dada and Surrealist movements in both New York and Paris, and his darkroom experimentation, fashion and portrait photography and subversive object-making expanded twentieth-century photographic technique. The book is a first-person record of one of the more versatile American modernists, studied today across modern art, Dadaism and photographic history.…
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Bibliographic details
- Title
- Self Portrait (First Edition w/ DJ 1963) NF/NF
- Author
- Man Ray
- Publisher
- Little, Brown and Company in association with The Atlantic Monthly Press, Boston
- Publication year
- 1963
- Condition
- NEAR FINE
- Dust jacket
- Dust Jacket Included
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Illustrator
- Man Ray
- Edition
- First Edition.
- Item weight
- 49 ounces
- Dimensions
- Octavo
- Seller catalogs
- Memoir, Modern Art, Photography
Coffee Cat Books
Chapel Hill, NC, U.S.A.
AbeBooks seller since September 15, 2021
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