During a career that spanned more than fifty years, two continents, and work in many media, Man Ray (1890-1976) produced a large body of photographic images that continue to command our attention. This volume presents his early work in New York in the 1910s, selections from his sizable Paris oeuvre in the 20s, 30s, and 50s, and photographs taken during his time in Hollywood in the 40s. Though in later years he expressed a desire to be remembered as a painter, Man Ray continued to work with photography throughout his life, pushing the boundaries of the medium with cameraless images, solarized portraits, and other innovations.

2011
J. Paul Getty Trust Publications
128 pages
18,39 euros
ISBN-10: 1606060600

In keeping with its educational mission, the Guggenheim Museum has posted 65 art catalogues online for free reading. These are books created and published in connection with modern and contemporary art exhibits at the Guggenheim over the past decades.

Jacques Villon, Raymond Duchamp-Villon, Marcel Duchamp

Contributions by André Breton, Raymond Duchamp-Villon, Marcel Duchamp, Walter Pach, Réne-Jean, and James Johnson Sweeney
Published in 1957
88 pages, fully illustrated
Softcover

etc.

Duchamp's famous last artwork, seen not as a summation of his work but as an invitation to endless interpretation. Haladyn is a writer and artist based in Canada. He teaches at the University of Western Ontario.

2010
Afterall Publishing - Collection: One Work Series
112 pages
11,47 euros
ISBN-10: 1846380596

For further information on Afterall One Work titles see
http://www.afterall.org/books/one.work/

Emmy Hemmings

Ruth Hemus establishes the ways in which Emmy Hennings (photo) and Sophie Taeuber in Zurich, Hannah Höch in Berlin, and Suzanne Duchamp and Céline Arnauld in Paris made important interventions across fine art, literature, and performance. Hemus highlights how their techniques and approaches were characteristic of Dada's rebellion against aesthetic and cultural conventions, analyzes the impact of gender on each woman's work, and shows convincingly that they were innovators and not imitators. In its new and original perspective on Dada, the book broadens our appreciation and challenges accepted understandings of this revolutionary avant-garde movement.

2009
Yale University Press (March 3, 2009)
250 pages
33,73 euros
ISBN-10: 0300141483

In this provocative and stimulating book, David Hopkins addresses the homosocial structures in Dada and Surrealist art with an eye to their relevance to current artistic and theoretical debate. Bestriding the book is the pivotal figure of the artist Marcel Duchamp, who was at the center of various groups of artistic and literary figures —predominantly male— in Europe and America.

2008
Yale University Press
256 pages
42,60 euros
ISBN-10: 0300108958
ISBN-13: 978-0300108958

Picture Book contains nineteen horizontal spreads, each of which features one poem and a corresponding collage. The photographs from which Höch sourced her image-parts are mostly in black and white. But in each composition, she added brightly colored paper fibers, whose airy strands resemble feathers— appropriate not only for the many birds that populate the book, but also for the extraterrestrial flora and fauna that exist alongside them and Höch's other chimeric creatures, who are festooned with tinted tufts.

The hybrid animals are every bit the hobbyhorse—syntheses of diverse objects that, united as a single image, receive new life in the reader's imagination. In one case, Höch uses only slightly trimmed photographs of Komondor dogs, whose long coats resemble the white, twisted cords of a mop. Their appellation, Longfringes, mimics their alien, ropy appearance, but in the context of the book, the animals become something else altogether. The transformation is aided by Höch's brief nursery rhymes; some offer light morals, others are gently subversive, but all elicit a delightful naivete.

15 August 2010
The Green Box Kunstedition
Bound: 44 pages
29,04 euros
ISBN-10: 3941644130
ISBN-13: 978-3941644137

A cat and her human pal introduce the Dada movement in this absurdist, celebratory title illustrated with eye-catching collages inspired by famous artists such as Marcel Duchamp. (Children - Grades 1-4)

2010
Clarion Books
48 pages
13,38 euros
ISBN-10: 0547126816

Contents: Mason Klein - "Alias Man Ray; Lost in translation"; Merry A. Foresta - "Man Ray and the shifting milieu of modernism"; George Baker - "Man Ray's culture industry"; Lauren Schell Dickens - "Man Ray: a cultural timeline, 1890-1976".

2010
Yale University Press
Collection: Jewish Museum
256 pages
36,80 euros
ISBN-10: 0300146833

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 Léger, René 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.

2009
Paperback: 342 pages
Peter Lang Pub Inc.
ISBN-10: 3039118846
40 euros

Sabine KRIEBEL, Angie LITTLEFIELD, Dorothy ROWE, Michael PARKE-TAYLOR (Editor) - Angelika Hoerle: The Comet of Cologne Dada

2009
Buchhandlung Walther Konig GmbH & Co. KG. Abt. Verlag
128 pages
28,52 euros
ISBN-10: 3865606318

A comprehensive assessment of Dada as revolutionary cultural movement and mass-media intervention. Edited by Rudolf Kuenzli, with unparalleled access to the International Dada Archive and its collection of 47,000 documents. Incorporates all aspects of Dada activity - visual arts, documented performance and writing in works by artists such as Max Ernst, Francis Picabia and Marcel Duchamp. Covers not only Western Europe and America but also Central and Eastern Europe and Japan, plus Neo-Dada worldwide. Now in paperback.

24 mars 2011
Phaidon Press Ltd
304 pages
37,95 euros
ISBN-10: 0714861138

While offering an entertaining and engaging history of dada and surrealism, Please Touch presents a persuasive argument highlighting the role of "tactility," which it defines as a decentralized, fragmented, and intimate form of knowing. In this compelling volume, Janine Mileaf offers the first full-length consideration of Marcel Duchamp's readymades and their profound legacy in the transatlantic context of dada and surrealism. This book embraces a broad range of art objects: consumer items such as the urinal and bottlerack that Duchamp "sneaked" into art exhibits; flea-market assemblages fabricated by his interwar avant-garde successors Man Ray, Andre Breton, Salvador Dali, Meret Oppenheim, and others; and the bricolage boxes of American surrealist Joseph Cornell.

2010
Dartmouth College (Interfaces: Studies in Visual Culture)
312 pages
30,30 euros
ISBN-10: 1584659343

Please Touch: Dada and Surrealist Objects after the Readymade (Interfaces: Studies in Visual Culture)

is also available from Amazon.com in the United States for $26.96.

The influence of Marcel Duchamp (1887-1968) was crucial to the development of Surrealism, Dada and Conceptual Art.

2009
Ediciones Poligrafa
160 pages
32,44 euros
ISBN-10: 8434311984

Jennifer MUNDY (Editor) - Duchamp, Man Ray, Picabia

This book examines the work of Duchamp, Man Ray, and Picabia, three pioneering figures in the history of modernism. It explores the points of convergence and the parallels in their development throughout their careers. Central to this is their response to photography and film, and to the challenges posed to fine art by the development of mass production.

2008
Tate Publishing
256 pages
56,95 euros
ISBN: 1854377310

January 2009
Charles H Kerr
Paperback: 148 pages
10,21 euros
ISBN-10: 0882862995

April 2011
201 pages
Wakefield Press (Cambridge MA)
12,14 euros
ISBN: 0984115536

A foundational classic of Surrealist literature, The Leg of Lamb: Its Life and Works brings together the arch-Surrealist Benjamin Péret's short prose: a smorgasbord of automatic writing and fantastical narratives that play on a medley of registers, employing everything from the cinematic antics of Buster Keaton and slapstick animation to the storytelling devices of detective novels, alchemical operations, and mythology. The Leg of Lamb consists of twenty-four delirious narratives, including the novella-length works "And the Breasts Were Dying" and "There Was a Little Bakeress". Péret's adult fairy tales bear equal allegiance to Lewis Carroll and the Marquis de Sade, and present one of the clearest examples of Surrealist humor, in which the boundaries between character and object blur, and where a coat rack, artichoke, or a pile of manure is just as likely as Napoléon, El Cid, or Pope Pius VII to take on the role of hero and adventurer.

2011
Black Widow Press Translation Series [Paperback]
357 pages
US $21.95
ISBN: 978-0-9818088-6-4

This is the first full length translation into English of Benjamin Peret's Le Grand Jeu, first published in 1928. The Big Game was Peret's best known work of the time and is still in print in France 80 years later.

"C'EST MON DADA" COLLECTION

Visual Poetry and Fluxus influenced works from artists from all over the world.
Hand made hard cover books.
Always our best sellers at book fairs.
15 euros each.
62 titles available.

FRANTICHAM ASSEMBLING BOXES

Visual poetry / Fluxus / Mail art
Boxes with original signed and numbered contributions from 23 artists.
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70 euros - 100 US$ - 60 GBP

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Contents: Volume I:
I. The avant-garde and its avatars. The dada manifestos
II. Dada and the Romanian period
III. Spontaneity and continuity in the Romanian avant-garde
IV. Dadaism, surrealism and other "isms"
V. Under the sign of contemporary avant-gardes
VI. The avant-garde and the aventures of modernity
VII. In the proximity of the avant-garde
VIII. Geared poetic creations for "Tristan Tzara Notebooks"
IX. Dada-geared and contemporary theater
Contents: Volume II:
X. Translations
XI. The avant-garde - echoes of the history of contemporary arts
XII. The avant-garde and its world of sounds
XIII. Diverse texts
XIV. Correspondence
XV. Appendix

2011
Moinesti, Romania
S.C. Docuprint S.R.L. Bacau
Volumes 1 & 2 + a CD (16 contemporary authors meeting Dada)
50,26 euros
ISSN 1584-8825

To order: <vasilerobciuccla@yahoo.com>

The book contains Duchamp's experimental writings, the long and extraordinary notes he wrote for The Bride Stripped Bare By Her Bachelors, Even (also known as The Large Glass), and the outrageous puns and alter-ego he constructed for his female self, Rrose Sélavy ("Eros, c'est la vie" or "arroser la vie"—"drink it up"; "celebrate life").

Da Capo Press Inc.
208 p.
11,06 euros
ISBN: 0306803410

"Kurt Schwitters's fairy tales can be safely read to children, without boring the parents. While children will be delightfully dreaming themselves in wondrous worlds, the parents can contemplate existential questions and take shortcuts to understanding the absurdity of war, the vacuity of power, and the vanity of wealth. Schwitters, the most childlike Dadaist, was a fierce defender of innocence and an equally fierce critic of society. His tales are well drawn paths in a magically lit moral landscape."
Andrei Codrescu, author of The Posthuman Dada Guide

2009
Princeton University Press
Collection : Oddly Modern Fairy Tales
248 pages
16,93 euros
ISBN-10: 0691139679

Free download: http://press.princeton.edu/titles/8868.html

One of the most influential artists of the twentieth century, Marcel Duchamp (1887-1968) was a master of self-invention who carefully regulated the image he projected through self-portraiture and through his collaboration with those who portrayed him. During his long career, Duchamp recast accepted modes for assembling and describing identity, indelibly altering the terrain of portraiture. This groundbreaking book demonstrates the ways in which Duchamp willfully manipulated the techniques of portraiture both to secure his reputation as an iconoclast and to establish himself as a major figure in the art world.

2009
308 p.
34,26 euros or $36.46
The MIT Press
ISBN: 0262013002

Celebrating the 40th anniversary of its public unveiling, Marcel Duchamp: Étant donnés situates the extraordinary assemblage within the context of almost 100 related works of art, including all of its known studies and related materials, including books, photographs, and works on paper. Duchamp also made a number of "erotic objects," small-scale sculptures that directly relate to the casting process of the female nude in Étant donnés. This exhibition brings these known works together with more than twenty previously unknown sculptures and studies. These unpublished works include erotic objects, body casts, prints, and notes, as well as over seventy Polaroid photographs taken by Duchamp of Étant donnés in his New York studio that provide the missing link in our understanding of the origins and evolution of Duchamp's final masterwork.

Michael Taylor is the Director of the Hood Museum of Art at Dartmouth College. Dr. Taylor studied at the Courtauld Institute of Art in London, where he wrote a doctoral dissertation on Marcel Duchamp's readymades, before joining the Philadelphia Museum of Art, where he was the Curator of Modern Art from 1997 to 2011.

2009
448 p.
45,72 euros
Yale University Press - Collection : Philadelphia Museum of Art
ISBN: 0300149794