Man Ray - Résurrection des Mannequins

In 1938, the writer André Breton (1896-1966) and poet Paul Éluard (1895-1952) organized the Exposition Internationale du Surréalisme at the Galerie Beaux-Arts in Paris. Each of fifteen artists were given a dressmaker's mannequin as their canvas and encouraged to transform the figure in any way they desired. The artists included (in order of appearance in this video) Salvador Dalí, Óscar Dominguez, Marcel Duchamp, Léo Malet, André Masson, Joan Miró, Wolfgang Paalen, Kurt Seligmann, Yves Tanguy, Marcel Jean, Max Ernst, Espinoza, Maurice Henry, Sonia Mossé, and Man Ray.
Man Ray organized the lighting and photographed the show. Twenty-eight years later, he printed and published a limited edition of these photographs, along with a descriptive text, under the title Résurrection des mannequins. Man Ray designed the binding and pursuaded the great surrealist printer Guy Lévis Mano to design and print the pages.
Princeton's copy is inscribed by Man Ray to his friend William Copley (1919-1996). In 1947, Copley opened a Los Angeles gallery dedicated to the Surrealists and to Man Ray's work in particular. When nothing sold, he closed the gallery, purchasing much of the art for his own private collection. In 1979, Copley sold this collection for $6.7 million, at the time the highest auction sale of a single owner's collection in the United States.

Music by Eno/Budd, 'Wind in Lonely Fences'.

Category:

Education

Tags:

• surrealismo
• man
• ray

[makelovenotart]

interesting to see that none of them "transform the figure"......

[kiszeski7]

Fabuleuse vidéo, et la musique est très bien choisie!!

[pedrogarciaraja]

Man ray es para mi una inspiracion institiva e innata. Descubri su tumba en paris y me puse a llorar como un niño que descubre a quien le debe 'la vida'

[pedrogarciaraja]

Para mi, man ray es una inspiracion instintiva. Me encontre con su tumba en paris y me puse a llorar de emocion, como un niño que de pronto descubre a quien le debe 'la vida'.

[mannequinwizard]

hymmm interesting,  surreal

[Eugebo11]

I'm surprised that not of the mannequins was used as a literal canvas to paint upon...was this not allowed by the curators?

[sonicjay007]

@PolichinelaAzul hey saw this on your channel,Great Taste for this,

very good,very heartfelt matter

[PolichinelaAzul]

I've always been attracted to the subject of automata and mannequins, a dead matter at once so human is really mysterious, I love your video accompanying the music as well toy or abandoned warehouse (very soundtrack).

Thanks,

1:14, 3:36 and 2:47 are jewels

[MyBartleby]

Muy bueno!! Maravilloso..

Gracias

[almacattleya]

Davvero fantastico. In un certo senso mi ricordano le bambole di Bellmer (spero di averlo scritto bene).