Man Ray

Man Ray, born to Jewish immigrants from Kiev to New York, is one of the main avant-garde Dadaist artists. He moved to Paris in 1920 in order to distance himself from his Jewish sweatshop background and his wish to recreate himself as an artist. In his “Enigma of Isidore Ducasse (1920) one sees a mystifying, sinister image of a covered shape which raises the question what’s behind it?

The lecture will focus on Man Ray’s unique Dadaistic works of art and hidden identity. It will also address Man Ray, the brilliant vanguard artist-provocateur’s sense of humor and uncanny modernistic images.