Jennifer Mundy

Damaged, attacked, rejected, destroyed, transient - there are many ways that art can become lost. With work by Marcel Duchamp, Wassily Kandinsky, Frida Kahlo, Joseph Beuys, John Baldessari, Rachel Whiteread and Lucian Freud, this is a lively look at a often little considered aspect of contemporary art.

Missing Artworks of the Twentieth Century

Lost Art

Tate Gallery

Works on Paper 1922-56

Hans Hartung

Man Ray (1890 –1976) was a pioneer of the Dada movement in the United States and France and a central protagonist of Surrealism. Today he is one of the best-known American artists of the twentieth century, celebrated above all for his innovative and often seductively glamorous photography. Surprisingly, given Man Ray’s key role in the history of early-twentieth-century Modernism, a comprehensive collection of his writings on art has not been published in English until now. Man Ray: Writings on Art fills a conspicuous gap in scholarship on the artist and his period. It brings together his most significant writings, many of them published here for the first time. These occasionally quixotic texts, which include artist books, essays, interviews, letters, and visual poems, reveal the incredible scale of the artist’s output and the remarkable continuity of his aesthetic and political beliefs. This volume offers a long overdue vision of Man Ray as someone who used words both as a creative medium and as a means of articulating ideas about the nature and value of art. With richly reproduced illustrations, it provides powerful insight not only to scholars of art history and academics, but also to working artists and those who count themselves as Man Ray fans.

Writings on Art

Man Ray

Elizabeth Cowling

Picasso, Léger, de Chirico and the New Classicism, 1910-1930

On Classic Ground

Dawn Ades

Vincent Gille

Published to accompany a major transatlantic exhibition of international Surrealism, this lavishly illustrated catalog explores desire in Surrealist art through both words and images. 284 color plates.

Desire Unbound

Surrealism

Jennifer Mundy

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