A New York Times and New Yorker Best Book of the Year. Shortlisted for the Vine Award for Canadian Jewish Literature.
Kiki Man Ray charts the volatile relationship between the French cabaret star, model, painter, and memoirist Kiki de Montparnasse and the American photographer Man Ray (born Emmanuel “Manny” Radnitzky, the son of Russian-Jewish immigrants, and raised in Brooklyn).
Kiki and Man Ray met at a Parisian café in 1921. What followed was an explosive decade-long connection, both professional and romantic, during which the couple grew and experimented as artists, competed for fame, and created many of the shocking images that cemented Man Ray’s reputation as one of the great artists of the modern era. The works they made together now set records at auction.
Award-winning historian Mark Braude illuminates Kiki’s seminal influence on Man Ray’s art, and on the culture of 1920s Paris and beyond. Kiki Man Ray is the story of two exceptional lives that will challenge ideas about artists and muses — and the lines separating the two.
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Nonfiction
Kiki Man Ray: Art, Love, and Rivalry in 1920s Paris
- From the Publisher
September 1, 2023
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