Artists' Things: Rediscovering Lost Property from Eighteenth-Century France MD2021 55 color and 17 b/w

55 color and 17 b/w illustrations

Though in later years he expressed a desire to be remembered as a painter

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Man Ray (1890–1976) was a pioneer of the Dada movement in the United States and France and a central protagonist of Surrealism

Artists' Things: Rediscovering Lost Property from Eighteenth-Century France MD2021 55 color and 17 b/wKatie Scott and Hannah Williams Histories of artists personal possessions shed new light on the lives of their owners. Artists are makers of things. Yet it is a measure of the disembodied manner in which we generally think about artists that we rarely consider the everyday items they own. This innovative book looks at objects that once belonged to artists, revealing not only the fabric of the eighteenth century art world in France but also