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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 Leger, Rene 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.
Contents
Contentsperformance - Pro-visual/anti-narrative - Chance, logic and order - Visual structures - Approaches to representation - The light and the lens: Emak Bakia: Between Dada and Surrealism - Optical explorations - Light and movement - The filmmaker and the poet: L'Etoile de mer: Man Ray and Robert Desnos: A fusion of sensibilities - From page to screen - Form versus content - Musical accompaniment - Film, poetry and architecture: Les Mysteres du Chateau du De: From architecture to film: The villa and the commission - Situating Les Mysteres du Chateau du De - Un coup de des ... - Spatial relations - (In) animate transformations - Collaborations, experiments and home movies: Collaborative projects - Home movies and cinematic essays.
