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Kiki Man Ray - Art, Love, and Rivalry in 1920s Paris (Hardcover)
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Kiki Man Ray - Art, Love, and Rivalry in 1920s Paris (Hardcover)
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In freewheeling 1920s Paris, Kiki de Montparnasse captivated as a
nightclub performer, sold out gallery showings of her paintings,
starred in Surrealist films, and shared drinks and ideas with the
likes of Jean Cocteau and Marcel Duchamp. Her best-selling
memoir-featuring an introduction by Ernest Hemingway-made
front-page news in France and was immediately banned in America.
All before she turned thirty. Kiki was once the symbol of bohemian
Paris. But if she is remembered today, it is only for posing for
several now-celebrated male artists, including Amedeo Modigliani
and Alexander Calder, and especially photographer Man Ray. Why has
Man Ray's legacy endured while Kiki has become a footnote? Kiki and
Man Ray met in 1921 during a chance encounter at a cafe. What
followed was an explosive decade-long connection, both professional
and romantic, during which the couple grew and experimented as
artists, competed for fame, and created many of the shocking images
that cemented Man Ray's reputation as one of the great artists of
the modern era. The works they made together, including the
Surrealist icons Le Violon d'Ingres and Noire et blanche, now set
records at auction. Charting their volatile relationship,
award-winning historian Mark Braude illuminates for the first time
Kiki's seminal influence not only on Man Ray's art, but on the
culture of 1920s Paris and beyond. As provocative and magnetically
irresistible as Kiki herself, Kiki Man Ray is the story of an
exceptional life that will challenge ideas about artists and
muses-and the lines separating the two.
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