Reflection on a Past Life

Reflection on a Past Life

Author: William Nelson Copley

Publisher: Walther Konig

Published: 2013

Total Pages: 61

ISBN-13: 9783863354589

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There can hardly be a better introduction to modern art than this humorous yet insightful book by a contemporary personally admitted info this fascinating, occasionally bizarre world through his encounters with key figures such as Man Ray, Max Ernst, Marcel Duchamp, and René Magritte. William Copley inherited a fortune as a young man and used his wealth to open a gallery in Beverly Hills shortly after World War II. Financially, the business was a flop, but Copley’s attempt to bring culture to the natives of Hollywood won him a place in the annals of art history. Copley himself was apainter and could well understand the work and thought processes of his heroes and coevals. This essay, written in 1976 for the exhibition ‘Paris-New York’, frankly and engagingly depicts episodes in the lives of Surrealist artists from the perspective of a younger colleague in a portrayal that is at once revealing and intimate. 0.


Man Ray

Man Ray

Author: Neil Baldwin

Publisher: Da Capo Press, Incorporated

Published: 2001-01-12

Total Pages: 486

ISBN-13:

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This story, enriched by previously unpublished material and the close cooperation of Juliet Man Ray, the artist's widow, should stand for years to come as the definitive story of the life and times of one of the greatest of modern artists.


Man Ray, American Artist

Man Ray, American Artist

Author: Neil Baldwin

Publisher: Clarkson Potter

Published: 1988

Total Pages: 472

ISBN-13:

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Man Ray is the quintessential modernist figure--painter, sculptor, objectmaker, and collagist; photographer, printmaker, and filmmaker; poet, essayist, and philosopher. One of the most important and en


Julien Levy

Julien Levy

Author: Ingrid Schaffner

Publisher: MIT Press (MA)

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 200

ISBN-13:

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This book, which accompanies a retrospective exhibition on the Julien Levy Gallery in New York, includes reproductions of paintings, photographs, and film stills from museum and private collections, aswell as of art and ephemera from Levy's own collection.


American Art Directory

American Art Directory

Author:

Publisher: R. R. Bowker

Published: 1980

Total Pages: 760

ISBN-13:

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The biographical material formerly included in the directory is issued separately as Who's who in American art, 1936/37-