书名：Man Ray: The Artist and His Shadows / 曼·雷：艺术家与他的阴影

作者：Arthur Lubow

出版：Yale University Press ，2021

装帧：精装，216页

语种：英文

尺寸：14.6*20.9 cm

这位神秘而著名的达达主义和超现实主义艺术家及摄影师的传记，将他的犹太背景与生平艺术相联系

曼·雷（1890-1976），作为达达主义的创始人之一，也是法国超现实主义运动的关键人物，是二十世纪最重要的艺术家之一。同时，他也是最为神秘莫测的艺术家之一。在这本新的传记中，记者兼评论家亚瑟·卢博以曼·雷的犹太背景为视角，试图深入理解他的生平与艺术。

曼·雷原名伊曼纽尔·拉德尼茨基，是家中长子，他于费城出生，母亲来自明斯克，父亲来自基辅。七岁时，全家搬到布鲁克林的威廉斯堡区，父母都在那里做裁缝。曼·雷没有遵从父母希望他获得大学学位的期望，而是选择了艺术家的道路，秉持着摄影师和前卫画廊老板阿尔弗雷德·斯蒂格利茨的现代主义信念。

三十岁时，曼·雷移居巴黎，与斯蒂格利茨不同，他与过去彻底断绝了联系。

A biography of the elusive but celebrated Dada and Surrealist artist and photographer connecting his Jewish background to his life and art

Man Ray (1890–1976), a founding father of Dada and a key player in French Surrealism, is one of the central artists of the twentieth century. He is also one of the most elusive. In this new biography, journalist and critic Arthur Lubow uses Man Ray’s Jewish background as one filter to understand his life and art.

Man Ray began life as Emmanuel Radnitsky, the eldest of four children born in Philadelphia to a mother from Minsk and a father from Kiev. When he was seven the family moved to the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn, where both parents worked as tailors. Defying his parents’ expectations that he earn a university degree, Man Ray instead pursued his vocation as an artist, embracing the modernist creed of photographer and avant-garde gallery owner Alfred Stieglitz.

When at the age of thirty Man Ray relocated to Paris, he, unlike Stieglitz, made a clean break with his past.