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Man Ray
	Man Ray, photographed at the Théâtre de la Gaîté-Montparnasse exhibition in Paris by Carl Van Vechten on June 16, 1934
Born	Emmanuel Radnitzky; August 27, 1890; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Died	November 18, 1976 (aged 86); Paris, France
Known for	Painting, photography, assemblage, collage, film
Movement	Dada, surrealism
Spouses	; Adon Lacroix (m. 1914; div. 1937) ; Juliet Browner (m. 1946)
Partner	Lee Miller (1929–1932)
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Man Ray (born Emmanuel Radnitzky; August 27, 1890 – November 18, 1976) was an American visual artist who spent most of his career in Paris. He was a significant contributor to the Dada and Surrealist movements, although his ties to each were informal. He produced major works in a variety of media but considered himself a painter above all. He was best known for his pioneering photography, and was a renowned fashion and portrait photographer. He is also noted for his work with photograms, which he called "rayographs" in reference to himself.^[1]

Biography

Background and early life

During his career, Man Ray allowed few details of his early life or family background to be known to the public. He even refused to acknowledge that he ever had a name other than Man Ray,^[2] and his 1963 autobiography Self-Portrait contains few dates.^[3]

Man Ray was born Emmanuel Radnitzky in South Philadelphia on August 27, 1890.^[4]^[5] He was the eldest child of Russian Jewish immigrants^[5] Melach "Max" Radnitzky, a tailor, and Manya "Minnie" Radnitzky (née Lourie or Luria).^[6] He had a brother, Sam, and two sisters, Dorothy "Dora" and Essie (or Elsie),^[6] the youngest born in 1897 shortly after they settled at 372 Debevoise St. in Williamsburg, Brooklyn.^[5] In early 1912, the Radnitzky family changed their surname to Ray; Sam chose this surname in reaction to the antisemitism prevalent at the time. Emmanuel, who was nicknamed "Manny", changed his first name to Man and gradually began to use Man Ray as his name.^[2]^[7]

Man Ray's father worked in a garment factory and ran a small tailoring business out of the family home. He enlisted his children to assist him from an early age. Man Ray's mother enjoyed designing the family's clothes and inventing patchwork items from scraps of fabric.^[2] Man Ray wished to distance himself from his family background, but tailoring left an enduring mark on his art. Mannequins, flat irons, sewing machines, needles, pins, threads, swatches of fabric, and other items related to tailoring appear in much of his work,^[8] and art historians have noted similarities between Ray's collage and painting techniques and styles used for tailoring.^[7]

Mason Klein, curator of the exhibition Alias Man Ray: The Art of Reinvention at the Jewish Museum in New York, suggests that Man Ray may have been "the first Jewish avant-garde artist."^[5]

Man Ray was the uncle of the photographer Naomi Savage, who learned some of his techniques and incorporated them into her own work.^[9]

First artistic endeavors

Man Ray displayed artistic and mechanical abilities during childhood. His education at Brooklyn's Boys' High School from 1904 to 1909 provided him with solid grounding in drafting and other basic art techniques. While he attended school, he educated himself with frequent visits to local art museums. After his graduation, Ray was offered a scholarship to study architecture but chose to pursue a career as an artist. Man Ray's parents were disappointed by their son's decision to pursue art, but they agreed to rearrange the family's modest living quarters so that Ray's room could be his studio.^[2] The artist remained in the family home over the next four years. During this time, he worked steadily towards becoming a professional painter. Man Ray earned money as a commercial artist and was a technical illustrator at several Manhattan companies.^[2]^[7]

The surviving examples of his work from this period indicate that he attempted mostly paintings and drawings in 19th-century styles. He was already an avid admirer of contemporary avant-garde art, such as the European modernists he saw at Alfred Stieglitz's 291 gallery and works by the Ashcan School. However, he was not yet able to integrate these trends into much of his own work. The art classes he sporadically attended, including stints at the National Academy of Design and the Art Students League, were of little apparent benefit to him. When he enrolled at the Ferrer Centre in the autumn of 1912, he began a period of intense and rapid artistic development.^[7] The Centre, established and run by anarchists in memory of the executed Catalan anarchist educationalist Francisco Ferrer,^[10] provided classes in drawing and lectures on art-criticism.^[7] There Emma Goldman noted "a spirit of freedom in the art class which probably did not exist anywhere else in New York at that time."^[7] Man Ray exhibited works in the Centre's 1912-13 group exhibition, with his painting A Study in Nudes reproduced in a review of the show in the Centre's associated magazine The Modern School.^[7] This may have been Man Ray's first published art work, and the magazine would go on to print his first published poem (Travail) in 1913. During this period he also contributed illustrations to radical publications, including providing the cover-art for two 1914 issues of Emma Goldman's journal Mother Earth.^[7]

Man Ray's work at this time was influenced by the avant-garde practices of European contemporary artists he was introduced to at the 1913 Armory Show. His early paintings display facets of cubism. After befriending Marcel Duchamp, who was interested in showing movement in static paintings, his works began to depict movement of the figures. An example is the repetitive positions of the dancer's skirts in The Rope Dancer Accompanies Herself with Her Shadows (1916).^[12]

In 1915, Man Ray had his first solo show of paintings and drawings after taking up residence at an art colony in Grantwood, New Jersey.^[13] His first proto-Dada object, an assemblage titled Self-Portrait, was exhibited the following year. He produced his first significant photographs in 1918, after initially picking up the camera to document his own artwork.^[14]

Man Ray abandoned conventional painting to involve himself with the radical Dada movement. He published two Dadaist periodicals, that each only had one issue, The Ridgefield Gazook (1915) and TNT (1919), the latter co-edited by Adolf Wolff and Mitchell Dawson.^[15]^[16] He started making objects and developed unique mechanical and photographic methods of making images. For the 1918 version of Rope Dancer, he combined a spray-gun technique with a pen drawing. Like Duchamp, he worked with readymades—ordinary objects that are selected and modified. His readymade The Gift (1921) is a flatiron with metal tacks attached to the bottom, and Enigma of Isidore Ducasse^[17] is an unseen object (a sewing machine) wrapped in cloth and tied with cord. Aerograph (1919), another work from this period, was done with airbrush on glass.^[18]

In 1920, Man Ray helped Duchamp make his Rotary Glass Plates, one of the earliest examples of kinetic art. It was composed of glass plates turned by a motor. That same year, Man Ray, Katherine Dreier, and Duchamp founded the Société Anonyme, an itinerant collection that was the first museum of modern art in the U.S. In 1941 the collection was donated to Yale University Art Gallery.^[19]

Man Ray teamed up with Duchamp to publish one issue of New York Dada in 1920. For Man Ray, Dada's experimentation was no match for the wild and chaotic streets of New York.^[20] He wrote that "Dada cannot live in New York. All New York is dada, and will not tolerate a rival."^[20]

In 1913, Man Ray met his first wife, the Belgian poet Adon Lacroix (Donna Lecoeur) (1887–1975), in New York. They married in 1914, separated in 1919, and formally divorced in 1937.^[21]

Paris

In July 1921, Man Ray went to live and work in Paris, settling in the Montparnasse quarter favored by many artists. His accidental rediscovery of the cameraless photogram, which he called "rayographs", resulted in mysterious images hailed by Tristan Tzara as "pure Dada creations".^[22]

Shortly after arriving in Paris, he met and fell in love with Alice Prin (popularly known as "Kiki de Montparnasse"), an artists' model and celebrated character in Paris bohemian circles. Prin was Man Ray's companion for most of the 1920s, and became the subject of some of his most famous photographic images. She also starred in his experimental films Le Retour à la raison and L'Étoile de mer.

In 1929, he began a love affair with the Surrealist photographer Lee Miller.^[23]^[24]^[25] She was also his photographic assistant and, together,^[26]^[27]^[28] they reinvented the photographic technique of solarization. Miller left him in 1932.

From late 1934 until August 1940, Man Ray was in a relationship with Adrienne Fidelin.^[29]^[30] She was a Guadeloupean dancer and model and she appears in many of his photographs. When Ray fled the Nazi occupation in France, Adrienne chose to stay behind to care for her family.^[31] Unlike the artist's other significant muses, Fidelin had until 2022 largely been written out of his life story.^[32]

Man Ray was a pioneering photographer in Paris for two decades between the wars. Many significant members of the art world, such as Pablo Picasso, Tristan Tzara, James Joyce, Gertrude Stein, Jean Cocteau, Salvador Dalí, Peggy Guggenheim, Bridget Bate Tichenor,^[33] Luisa Casati,^[34] and Antonin Artaud, posed for his camera. His international fame as a portrait photographer is reflected in a series of photographs of Maharajah Yashwant Rao Holkar II and his wife Sanyogita Devi from their visit to Europe in 1927.^[35]^[36] In the winter of 1933, surrealist artist Méret Oppenheim, known for her fur-covered teacup, posed nude for Man Ray in a well-known series of photographs depicting her standing next to a printing press.^[37]

His practice of photographing African objects in the Paris collections of Paul Guillaume and Charles Ratton and others led to several iconic photographs, including Noire et blanche. As Man Ray scholar Wendy A. Grossman has illustrated, "no one was more influential in translating the vogue for African art into a Modernist photographic aesthetic than Man Ray."^[38]

Man Ray was represented in the first Surrealist exhibition with Jean Arp, Giorgio de Chirico, Max Ernst, Georges Malkine, André Masson, Joan Miró, and Pablo Picasso at the Galerie Pierre in Paris in 1925. Important works from this time were a metronome with an eye, originally titled Object to Be Destroyed, and the Violon d'Ingres,^[39] a stunning photograph of Kiki de Montparnasse,^[40] styled after the painter/musician Ingres. Violon d'Ingres is a popular example of how Man Ray could juxtapose disparate elements in his photography to generate meaning.^[41]

Man Ray directed a number of influential avant-garde short films, known as Cinéma Pur. He directed Le Retour à la Raison (2 mins, 1923); Emak-Bakia (16 mins, 1926); L'Étoile de Mer (15 mins, 1928); and Les Mystères du Château de Dé (27 mins, 1929). Man Ray also assisted Marcel Duchamp with the cinematography of his film Anemic Cinema (1926), and Ray personally manned the camera on Fernand Léger's Ballet Mécanique (1924). In René Clair's film Entr'acte (1924), Man Ray appeared in a brief scene playing chess with Duchamp.^[42] Duchamp, Man Ray, and Francis Picabia were all friends and collaborators, connected by their experimental, entertaining, and innovative art.^[43]^[44]

Hollywood

The Second World War forced Man Ray to return to the United States. He lived in Los Angeles from 1940 to 1951, where he focused his creative energy on painting. A few days after arriving in Los Angeles, he met Juliet Browner, a first-generation American of Romanian-Jewish lineage. She was a trained dancer who studied dance with Martha Graham,^[45] and an experienced artists' model. They married in 1946 in a double wedding with their friends Max Ernst and Dorothea Tanning. They were also close friends with Black Dahlia suspect George Hodel and his second wife Dorothy Harvey (also known as Dorero). George Hodel’s son Steve Hodel even proposes that the staging of the murder was an homage to Man Ray’s surrealist creations.^[46] In 1948 Ray had a solo exhibition at the Copley Galleries in Beverly Hills, which brought together a wide array of work and featured his newly painted canvases of the Shakespearean Equations series.^[47]

Later life

Man Ray returned to Paris in 1951, and settled with Juliet into a studio at 2 bis rue Férou near the Jardin du Luxembourg, where he continued his creative practice across mediums.^[48] During the last quarter century of his life, he returned to a number of his iconic earlier works, recreating them in new form. He also directed the production of limited-edition replicas of several of his objects, working first with Marcel Zerbib and later Arturo Schwarz.^[49]

In 1963, he published his autobiography, Self-Portrait (republished in 1999).^[14]

Ray continued to work on new paintings, photographs, collages and art objects^[50] until his death from a lung infection, in Paris, on November 18, 1976. He was interred in the Cimetière du Montparnasse in Paris^[51], his epitaph reads "Unconcerned, but not indifferent". When Juliet died in 1991, she was interred in the same tomb. Her epitaph reads "Together again". Juliet organized a trust for Ray's work and donated much of his work to museums. Her plans to restore the studio as a public museum proved too expensive; such was the structure's disrepair. Most of its contents were stored at the Centre Pompidou museum.^[45]

Innovations

Man Ray was responsible for several technical innovations in modern art, filmmaking, and photography. These included his use of photograms to produce surrealist images he called "Rayograms", and solarization (rediscovered with Lee Miller). His 1923 experimental film Le Retour à la raison was the first 'cine-rayograph', a motion picture made without the use of a camera.^[52] Ray's 1935 Space Writing (Self-Portrait) was the first light painting, predating Picasso's 1949 light paintings, photographed by Gjon Mili, by fourteen years.^[53]

Accolades

In 1974, Man Ray received the Royal Photographic Society's Progress Medal and Honorary Fellowship "in recognition of any invention, research, publication or other contribution which has resulted in an important advance in the scientific or technological development of photography or imaging in the widest sense."^[54] In 1999, ARTnews magazine named Man Ray one of the 25 most influential artists of the 20th century. The publication cited his groundbreaking photography, "his explorations of film, painting, sculpture, collage, assemblage and prototypes of what would eventually be called performance art and conceptual art." ARTnews further stated that "Man Ray offered artists in all media an example of a creative intelligence that, in its 'pursuit of pleasure and liberty', unlocked every door it came to and walked freely where it would."^[55]^[56]

Art market

Man Ray's Le Violon d'Ingres (1924), a famed photograph depicting a nude Alice Prin's back overlaid with a violin's f-holes, sold for $12.4 million on May 14, 2022, setting a new world record as the most expensive photograph ever to be sold at auction. The sale came after a drawn-out bidding period that lasted nearly ten minutes during Christie's New York's auction dedicated to Surrealist art.^[57]

On November 9, 2017, Man Ray's Noire et Blanche (1926), formerly in the collection of Jacques Doucet, was purchased at Christie's Paris for €2,688,750 (US$3,120,658), becoming (at that time) the 14th most expensive photograph to ever sell at auction.^[58]^[59]^[60] This was a record not only for Man Ray's work in the photographic medium but also for the sale at auction of any vintage photograph.^[61]

Only two other works by Man Ray in any medium have commanded more at auction than the price captured by the 2017 sale of Noire et blanche. His 1916 canvas Promenade sold for $5,877,000 on November 6, 2013, at the Sotheby's New York Impressionist & Modern Art Sale.^[62] And on November 13, 2017, his assemblage titled Catherine Barometer (1920), sold for $3,252,500 at Christie's in New York.^[63]

Legacy

Self-Portrait was republished in 1999.^[14]

In March 2013, Man Ray's photograph Noire et Blanche (1926) was featured in the US Postal Service's "Modern Art in America" series of stamps.^[64]

Irish actor Frank Bourke is set to play Man Ray in the 2025 television series This Is Not A Murder Mystery.^[65]

Man Ray, 1920, Three Heads (Joseph Stella and Marcel Duchamp, painting bust portrait of Man Ray above Duchamp), gelatin silver print, 20.7 x 15.7 cm, Museum of Modern Art, New York
Salvador Dalí and Man Ray in Paris, on June 16, 1934, making "wild eyes" for photographer Carl Van Vechten
Man Ray, Paris, 1975, photographed by Lothar Wolleh

Selected publications

Man Ray and Tristan Tzara (1922). Champs délicieux: album de photographies. Paris: [Société générale d'imprimerie et d'édition].
Man Ray (1926). Revolving doors, 1916–1917: 10 planches. Paris: Éditions Surrealistes.
Man Ray (1934). Man Ray: photographs, 1920–1934, Paris. Hartford, Connecticut: James Thrall Soby.
Éluard, Paul, and Man Ray (1935). Facile. Paris: Éditions G.L.M.
Man Ray and André Breton (1937). La photographie n'est pas l'art. Paris: Éditions G.L.M.
Man Ray and Paul Éluard (1937). Les mains libres: dessins. Paris: Éditions Jeanne Bucher.
Man Ray (1948). Alphabet for adults. Beverly Hills, California: Copley Galleries.
Man Ray (1963). Self portrait. London: Andre Deutsch.
Man Ray and L. Fritz Gruber (1963). Portraits. Gütersloh, Germany: Sigbert Mohn Verlag.

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^ Warren, Lynne, ed. (November 15, 2005). "Man Ray". Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century Photography. Vol. 2. Routledge. p. 1000. ISBN 9781135205362.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Herschthal, Eric (November 10, 2009), "Man Ray's Jewish Identity: 'Concealing And Revealing'", The Jewish Week, archived from the original on January 27, 2010, Klein suggests that Ray may have even been the first Jewish avant-garde artist, though it is a tenuous claim given both the movement and Man Ray's disavowal of ethnic identity.
^ ^a ^b 1900 United States Federal Census
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^ Lacroix's first marriage had been to Adolf Wolff, an immigrant anarchist sculptor and poet, born in Brussels, Belgium.
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Knowles, Kim, A Cinematic Artist: The Films of Man Ray. Bern; Oxford: Peter Lang; ISBN 9783039118847 (2009).
Mileaf, Janine. "Between You and Me: Man Ray's Object to be Destroyed," Art Journal 63, No. 1 (Spring 2004): 4–23.
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External links

Man Ray Trust Digital Photo Library^{[permanent dead link‍]}. Searchable; over 1,000 photos
Man Ray Trust
Man Ray at the National Gallery of Victoria (NGV), Melbourne, Australia
Man Ray at the Museum of Modern Art
"Man Ray Laid Bare" from Tate Magazine
Man Ray's Subtle Surrealistic Genius Women^{[permanent dead link‍]}
Works by or about Man Ray at the Internet Archive
Works by Man Ray at LibriVox (public domain audiobooks)
Collection of Man Ray short films
Man Ray at IMDb
Man Ray letters and album, 1922–1976. Research Library at the Getty Research Institute. Los Angeles
Man Ray^{[permanent dead link‍]} in the National Gallery of Australia's Kenneth Tyler collection
Man Ray in American public collections, on the French Sculpture Census website
Man Ray at The Jewish Museum

[1] "Rayograms by Man Ray". Time. April 18, 1932. Archived from the original on November 8, 2008. Retrieved January 6, 2012.

[BaldwinBio-2] Baldwin, Neil. Man Ray: American Artist; Da Capo Press; ISBN 0-306-81014-X (1988, 2000)

[3] Rosenberg, Karen (November 19, 2009). "Mercurial Jester, Revealing and Concealing". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved July 15, 2024.

[4] Warren, Lynne, ed. (November 15, 2005). "Man Ray". Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century Photography. Vol. 2. Routledge. p. 1000. ISBN 9781135205362.

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v t e Man Ray
Photographs	Le Violon d'Ingres (1924) Noire et Blanche (1926) Larmes (1930–1932) Portrait of a Tearful Woman (1936)
Portfolios	Électricité (1931)
Sculptures	The Gift (1921) Object to Be Destroyed (1923)
Films	Le Retour à la raison (1923) Emak Bakia (1926) L'Étoile de mer (1928) Les Mystères du Château du Dé (1929) Dreams That Money Can Buy (1947, co-wrote)
Family and relationships	Juliet Man Ray (wife) Lee Miller (photographic assistant and lover) Kiki de Montparnasse (model and lover) Méret Oppenheim (model)

v t e Surrealism
Artists	Eileen Agar Jean Arp Eugène Atget Hans Bellmer Jacques-André Boiffard Bill Brandt Victor Brauner Fanny Brennan Emmy Bridgwater Jacques Brunius Luis Buñuel Claude Cahun Leonora Carrington Ithell Colquhoun Gala Dalí Salvador Dalí Jean Dallaire Paul Delvaux Óscar Domínguez Christian Dotremont Marcel Duchamp Marcel Duhamel Curt Echtermeyer Max Ernst Leonor Fini Gordon Onslow Ford Esteban Francés Alberto Giacometti Julio González Jane Graverol Jacques Hérold Valentine Hugo Frida Kahlo Gerome Kamrowski Wifredo Lam Jacqueline Lamba Dora Maar Conroy Maddox René Magritte Georges Malkine Marcel Mariën André Masson Roberto Matta Mikuláš Medek Oscar Mellor John Melville E. L. T. Mesens Lee Miller Desmond Morris Joan Miró Méret Oppenheim Wolfgang Paalen Benjamín Palencia Roland Penrose Man Ray Toni del Renzio Aminollah Rezaei Kay Sage Kurt Seligmann André Souris Martin Stejskal Jindřich Štyrský Maurice Tabard Yves Tanguy Dorothea Tanning Karel Teige Kristians Tonny Toyen Albert Valentin Remedios Varo James F. Walker Radojica Živanović Noe Unica Zürn
Writers and theorists	Maxime Moses Alexandre Guillaume Apollinaire Louis Aragon Antonin Artaud Jacques Baron Georges Bataille Monny de Boully André Breton Roger Caillois Nicolas Calas René Crevel René Daumal Robert Desnos Vratislav Effenberger Paul Éluard Renée Gauthier Roger Gilbert-Lecomte Yvan Goll Julien Gracq Irène Hamoir Georges Hugnet Alfred Jarry Nelly Kaplan Petr Král Jacques Lacan Philip Lamantia Comte de Lautréamont Marcel Lecomte Michel Leiris Georges Limbour Léo Malet Joyce Mansour Dušan Matić Robert Melville René Ménil Max Morise Pierre Naville Vítězslav Nezval Paul Nougé Paul Păun Benjamin Péret Rastko Petrović Francis Ponge Jacques Prévert Raymond Queneau Herbert Read Pierre Reverdy Marko Ristić Georges Sadoul Louis Scutenaire Philippe Soupault Simon Watson Taylor André Thirion Dylan Thomas Tristan Tzara Jacques Vaché Marianne Van Hirtum Roger Vitrac
Groups	Acéphale Les Automatistes Birmingham Surrealists British Surrealist Group Bureau of Surrealist Research Chicago Imagists Chicago Surrealist Group Dau al Set Fighting Cock Society The Firesign Theatre The Goons Grup d'Elx La Mandrágora Monty Python Refus Global The Surrealist Group in Stockholm
Related	Surrealist Manifesto Surrealist automatism Surrealist cinema Surrealist music Surrealist techniques Surreal humour Exposition Internationale du Surréalisme London International Surrealist Exhibition Women surrealists Dada Abstract expressionism Paranoiac-critical method

v t e Dada
New York Dada	Marcel Duchamp Francis Picabia Man Ray Beatrice Wood Louise Norton Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven Juliette Roche Gleizes Jean Crotti
European Dada	Dragan Aleksić Louis Aragon Jean Arp Johannes Baader Alice Bailly Hugo Ball André Breton Gabrièle Buffet-Picabia Serge Charchoune Arthur Cravan Jean Crotti Otto Dix Theo van Doesburg Marcel Duchamp Suzanne Duchamp Paul Éluard Max Ernst Julius Evola George Grosz Raoul Hausmann John Heartfield Emmy Hennings Hannah Höch Richard Huelsenbeck Iliazd Marcel Janco Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven Clément Pansaers Francis Picabia Man Ray Georges Ribemont-Dessaignes Jacques Rigaut Henri-Pierre Roché Kurt Schwitters Walter Serner Philippe Soupault Sophie Taeuber-Arp Julien Torma Tristan Tzara Jacques Vaché
Works	Bicycle Wheel Bottle Rack Fountain Dada-Review Prelude to a Broken Arm Why Not Sneeze, Rose Sélavy? L.H.O.O.Q. Tulip Hysteria Co-ordinating Rrose Sélavy Readymades of Marcel Duchamp The Gas Heart (1921 play) Handkerchief of Clouds (1924 play)
Publications	Dada Manifesto 291 (magazine) 391 (magazine) The Blind Man (magazine) Dadaglobe
Influences	Alfred Jarry Incoherents Eugène Bataille (aka Sapeck) Parade (ballet)
Influenced	Conceptual art Surrealism Nouveau réalisme Pop art Fluxus Monochrome painting Downtown music
Related	Alfred Stieglitz (photographer, art promoter) Walter Conrad Arensberg (art collector) 291 (art gallery) Galeries Dalmau Found object Anti-art Anarchism and the arts Anti-anti-art Anti-poetry Appropriation (art) Art intervention Cabaret Voltaire Noise music Épater la bourgeoisie Shock art Beatrice Wood: Mama of Dada (1993 documentary) Man and Boy: Dada (2006 opera)

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