Mathematical Object
Man Ray, American, 1890 - 1976
1934-1936
Gelatin silver print
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Purchased through the Katharine T. and Merrill G. Beede 1929 Fund
2012.4
Geography
Place Made: United States, North America
Period
20th century
Object Name
Photograph
Research Area
Photograph
Not on view
Inscriptions
Stamped on reverse: [studio stamp of the period]
Course History
ARTH 71, The "American Century": Modern Art in the United States, Mary Coffey, Winter 2015
ARTH 71, The "American Century": Modern Art in the United States. Mary Coffey, Winter 2015
ARTH 48.02, History of Photography, Katie Hornstein, Winter 2020
Exhibition History
Surreal Objects: Three-Dimensional Works from Dali to Man Ray, Schirn Kusthalle, Frankfurt, German, February 11-May 29, 2011.
The Object World, Harrington Gallery Teaching Exhibition, ARTH2, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, February 5-March 15, 2015.
Publication History
Ingrid Pfeiffer and Max Hollein, eds, Surreal Objects: Three-Dimensional Works from Dali to Man Ray. Schirn Kusthalle, Frankfurt, Germany; Ostfildern, German: Hatje Cantz Verlag, 2011, illus. pp. 130, 252 (transparency reverse).
Published References
Henderson, Linda Dalrymple. The Fourth Dimension and Non-Euclidian Geometry in Modern Art. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1983. Kirsten A. Hoving, “Man Ray’s Mathematical Objects” in History of Photography 25, no. 2. (2001), 193–200. Klein, Mason and George Baker, Lauren Schell Dickens, and Merry A. Foresta. Alias Man Ray: The Art of Reinvention. New York: The Jewish Museum, New York; New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2010. Parkinson, Gavin. Surrealism, Art and Modern Science: Relativity, Quantum Mechanics, Epistemology. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2008. Pfeiffer , Ingrid, and Max Hollein, eds. Surreal Objects: Three-Dimensional Works from Dali to Man Ray. Schirn Kusthalle, Frankfurt, Germany; Ostfildern, Germany: Hatje Cantz Verlag, 2011. Ray, Man. Man Ray: Photographs. New York: Thames and Hudson, 1982. Taylor, Michael R. “Eros Triumphant,” in Jennifer Mundy, ed., Duchamp, Man Ray, Picabia. London: Tate Modern, 2008, 156–75.
Provenance
The artist; sold to Timothy Baum, New York (art dealer), about 1974–75; sold to private collection, New York; sold to Timothy Baum, New York (art dealer); sold to present collection, 2012.
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