Permanent Attraction: Man Ray & Chess

Name: Permanent Attraction: Man Ray & Chess
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SKU: 9783777444475
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Dada & Surrealist Chess Art

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Authorised by The Man Ray Trust, Permanent Attraction: Man Ray & Chess is the first and only book on Man Ray's chess-themed works in all media. With experience in studio art, chess, photography, cartography, prototyping, and scholarly research, the author offers a comprehensive interpretation of when,... Read More

Format: Hardback

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Permanent Attraction: Man Ray & Chess

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Description

Authorised by The Man Ray Trust, Permanent Attraction: Man Ray & Chess is the first and only book on Man Ray's chess-themed works in all media. With experience in studio art, chess, photography, cartography, prototyping, and scholarly research, the author offers a comprehensive interpretation of when, how, and why Man Ray created these timeless works.

Man Ray's chess set designs are as sought after as his innovative photography, collected by everyone from the Maharajah of Indore to Igor Stravinsky, Artie Shaw, and David Bowie. Today, Man Ray's chess-themed works are in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art, the Museum of the Art Institute of Chicago, Centre Georges Pompidou, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and numerous other institutions, as well as being highly prized by private collectors the world over.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9783777444475

Publisher: Hirmer Verlag

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 07 August 2025

Country: Germany

Imprint: Hirmer Verlag

Illustration: 350 Illustrations

Contributors:

Foreword by Francis M. Naumann
Edited by Larry List

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 204.0mm

Height: 254.0mm

Weight: 1180g

Pages: 264

Collections

Arts & Culture Non-Fiction

About the Author

Larry List is an independent writer and curator of Dada, Surreal and chess-related art. His exhibitions include The Imagery of Chess Revisited, The Art of Chess, Man Ray & Sherrie Levine, and John Cage & Glenn Kaino. He has written catalogue essays for the Noguchi Museum, the Menil Collection, the Tate Modern, the Andy Warhol Museum, and many others.