Lot 465 Man Ray. To be continued... Mit der …

To be continued... Mit der handsignierten Offsetlithographie "Spiderwoamen" von Man Ray. Beverly Hills, Copley Galleries 1948. 22,5 x 13,6 (30,2 x 22,4 cm). Signiert und nummeriert. Druck teils auf rosa und gelbem Papier.

Photographie - Moderne Photographie – Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 67.765.19. - Zusätzlich im Vorsatz von Man Ray handsigniert, eins von 125 Exemplaren der Vorzugsausgabe mit der originalen Heliogravure. - Berühmtes autonomes Künstlerobjekt mit de, dreieckig beschnittenem gelbem Vorderdeckel, blauem Rückdeckel und farbig differenzierten Einlagebogen überführt das Dada-Prinzip der typographischen und materiellen Subversion unmittelbar in die Buchform selbst. Inhaltlich verdichtet sie Man Rays Doppelrolle als Stratege und Grenzgänger - sein an Breton gerichtetes Bekenntnis, Propaganda ins feindliche Lager zu tragen statt Bereits-Überzeugte zu bekehren, formuliert präzise das subversive Infiltrationsprinzip, das sein gesamtes Werk trägt. Entstanden in seiner California-Periode (1940-1951) und für den einzigen ernsthaft surrealistischen Ausstellungsort in Los Angeles - die Copley Galleries - konzipiert, ist die Mappe zugleich Transplantationsversuch der Pariser Avantgarde in einen kulturell widerstrebenden Kontext und früher Seismograph des California Surrealism. Mit der Spiderwoman und dem programmatischen Titel antizipiert sie das Künstlerbuch als skulpturales Medium der 1960er Jahre - und stellt damit das direkteste Bindeglied zwischen historischem Surrealismus und den Buchwerken von Ed Ruscha oder Dieter Roth dar.

Modern Photography – With the hand-signed offset lithograph Spiderwoman by Man Ray. Beverly Hills, Copley Galleries, 1948. Signed and numbered. Printed in part on pink and yellow paper. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 67.765.19. - Additionally hand-signed by Man Ray on the flyleaf, one of 125 copies of the deluxe edition with the original offset lithograph. - A celebrated autonomous artist's object: the triangularly trimmed yellow front cover, blue back cover, and colour-differentiated insert sheets transpose the Dada principle of typographic and material subversion directly into the form of the book itself. In terms of content, it distils Man Ray's dual role as strategist and boundary-crosser - his declaration to Breton that he preferred to carry his propaganda into the enemy's camp rather than convert the already converted formulates with precision the subversive principle of infiltration that underlies his entire ouvre. Conceived during his California period (1940-1951) for the only serious Surrealist exhibition venue in Los Angeles - the Copley Galleries - the portfolio is simultaneously an attempt to transplant the Parisian avant-garde into a culturally resistant context and an early seismograph of California Surrealism. With the Spiderwoman and its programmatic title, it anticipates the artist's book as sculptural medium of the 1960s - and thereby represents the most direct link between historical Surrealism and the book works of Ed Ruscha or Dieter Roth.

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