Man Ray: Human Equations

by Edouard Sebline, Andrew Strauss, Adina Kamien-Kazhdan, et al.

Man Ray's Shakespearean Equations--a series of paintings he considered to be the pinnacle of his creative vision--has long been a puzzle of Surrealism. What meaningful common thread could possibly link Shakespeare, mathematics and art? This volume sets out to unravel the puzzle by beginning with photographs of mathematical models that Man Ray took at the Institut Henri Poincar? in Paris in the 1930s. It then charts the artist's development...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3775739203
• ISBN13: 9783775739207
• Release Date: February 2015
• Publisher: Hatje Cantz
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 2.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 9.1" x 10.0"