Cadeau 1921
As an artist, I feel implicitly that we should have some understanding of the historical context in which we create art. Not to say we need to characterize our selves as art historians, but simply some consciousness of how history frames our art. My personal option is that modernism, in a ciprocal scene, is the artistic high water mark of contemporary art. I feel that artist such a Duchamp and Ray are largely to blame for the movement of postmodernism. Doing a great job of pushing a revolution to the point of quasi cultural acceptance, to then witness the recoil.
After attending studio art school for four years I have a pretty good scene of art history committed to memory, a lot of this is stream of consciousness. I did look at a few articles about Ray but most of this is accumulated knowledge. I feel that Maine College of Art's artistic principles lie largely in postmodernism. It was often tough to grapple with and forced me to spend a lot of time thinking about what post postmodernism was going to look like. A large portion of my time was spent on modernism and the artists of the movement.
I feel that Rays outward gesture to the art world was his benevolence for the movement of modernism. His contributions to the movement can only be compared to artists such as Duchamp and jointly, I feel there passion for Dada and general modernity forced the movement into true acceptance.
The bottom two images I fell are pretty self explanatory, the top image is only to illustrate how far reaching Rays abilities were. Besides I think it is sort of a funny image. He was probably a little before his time on that one, I can only imagine what the critic's said.
Not sure what you want for a bibliography. None of the information I have came directly from the articles I read. If you need me to change something or try to better assign informational credit, I will do my best
http://adrunkenduck.blogspot.com/2010/06/man-ray.html
http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/492395/Man-Ray
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