Kiki Man Ray

Art, Love and Rivalry in 1920s Paris

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<b>***One of The New Yorker's Best Books of 2022***<br>***One of The New York Time's 100 Notable Books of 2022***</b><br><br><b>'Exuberantly entertaining' </b><i>NYT Book Review</i><br><b>'M</b><b>ark Braude's writing and subject make this book irresistible, as was Kiki herself.' </b>Jim Jarmusch<br><b>'A delightful, marvelously readable, meticulously-researched romp of a book, <i>Kiki Man Ray </i>brings to life not just the kaleidoscopically talented Kiki herself, but the endlessly fascinating Montparnasse milieu over which she reigned.' </b>Whitney Scharer, author of <i>THE AGE OF LIGHT</i><br><br>Though many have never heard her name, Alice Prin - Kiki de Montparnasse - was the icon of 1920s Paris. She captivated as a ground-breaking nightclub performer, wrote a bestselling memoir, sold out exhibitions of her paintings, and shared drinks and ideas with the likes of <b>Pablo Picasso, Peggy Guggenheim, and Marcel Duchamp.</b> She also shepherded along the career of a then-unknown American photographer: Man Ray.<br><br>Following Kiki in the years between 1921 and 1929, when she lived and worked with Man Ray, <i>Kiki Man Ray</i> charts their complicated entanglement and reveals how Man Ray - always the unabashed careerist - went on to become one of the most famous photographers of the twentieth century, enjoying wealth and prestige, while Kiki's legacy was lost.<br><br>But this isn't a story of an overbearing male genius and his defeated muse. During the 1920s it was Kiki, not Man Ray, who was the brighter of the two rising stars and a powerful figure among the close-knit community of models, painters, writers and café wastrels who made their homes in gritty Montparnasse. Following the couple as they created art, struggled for power and competed for fame, <b><i>Kiki Man Ray</i> illuminates for the first time Kiki's seminal influence on the culture of 1920s Paris, and challenges ideas about artists and muses, and the lines separating the two.</b><br><br><b>'Kiki de Mo

Artikeldetails

EAN

9781529300499

Sprache

Englisch

Einband / Art

Taschenbuch

Maße

26 x 152 x 232 mm

Erscheinungsjahr

2022

Verlag / Hersteller

John Murray