In "Surrealism: Theater, Arts, Ideas," (1972) author Nahma Sandrow begins her definition of the surrealist aesthetic as "the perception of and enthusiastic commitment to non-rationality"; a visual ...conundrum like "Clock and Rope" fits.
At Christie's, a highlight is the 130-image Consolidated Freightways collection, put together in the 1980s by the trucking company now known as Con-way Inc. The theme is America's love affair with ...the highway, photos that could have been taken from the cab of a truck, and it includes such classics as Ansel Adams's 1953 "Coastal Road," showing a lonely stretch of highway with hills in the distance, and Robert Frank's "U.S. 285, New Mexico," a 1956 photo focusing on the center strip of a highway at what appears to be dusk.
Art: Masked Man, Revealed Woodward, Richard B
The Wall Street journal. Eastern edition,
01/2010
Newspaper Article
Born in Philadelphia, the son of Jewish immigrants in the garment trade, he altered his name (like an expert tailor, trimming Emanuel Radnitsky to Man Ray) and kept quiet about his ethnic, ...working-class background wherever he lived --
"Noire et Blanche," a rare 1926 diptych by surrealist photographer Man Ray sold for $607,500, including commissions. The work, which consists of two photographs-a positive and a negative image of the ...artist's muse and lover, Kiki-sold within presale expectations of $600,000 to $800,000.
The $20 million collection in the garage. Man Ray, a pioneering photographer and Jazz Age colleague of Pablo Picasso and Salvador Dali, died in Paris more than three decades ago, but what's left of ...his studio can still be found -- in a car-repair shop on New York's Long Island.
