national portrait gallery publications great britain (2 résultats)

Hardcover. Etat : Fine. Etat de la jaquette : Fine. Book measures 37x28cm, Illustrated throughout. Bound in original publishers cloth. Binding in near fine condition. Dust jacket lightly rubbed. Jacket in good clean condition. Internally, pages clean, near fine. A very good clean copy.

Hardcover. Etat : Fine. Etat de la jaquette : Fine. First Edition. black cloth, 224 pages : illustrations (some color), portraits (some color), CONTENTS; Introduction: Icons of modern life / Marina Warner -- Man Ray in print / Terence Pepper -- Plates -- Chronology / Helen Trompeteler -- Further reading -- Picture credits.[edited by] Terence Pepper ; with an introduction by Marina Warner. fine copy in fine dust jacket. "Published to accompany the exhibition Man Ray Portraits at the National Portrait Gallery, London, from 7 February to 27 May 2013, the Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh, from 22 June to 8 September 2013, and the Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow, from 28 October to 19 January 2014"--Title page verso. "The artist May Ray (1890-1976) initially taught himself photography in order to reproduce his own works of art, but it became one of his preferred mediums. As a contributor to the Dada and Surrealist movements in Paris during the 1920s, Man Ray was perfectly placed to make defining images of his avant-garde contemporaries, including Jean Cocteau, Peggy Guggenheim, and Gertrude Stein.".