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...“The first time I went to see Brâncuşi in his studio I was more impressed than in any cathedral,” Man Ray wrote. “I was overwhelmed with its whiteness and lightness....
...the clash of incongruous images in visual art that Surrealism achieved its disquieting icons: Salvador Dalí’s “Lobster Telephone” (1938), Luis Buñuel’s sliced eyeball in “Un chien andalou” (1929), Man Ray...
...Many of the pieces are by Charles and Ray Eames and also by the Dutch designer Gerrit Rietveld, who broke the mould of what furniture was supposed to look like....
...Round on the Links The link was people and things in a hospital Medicine Hat Lalla Ward The (Royal) National Theatre Doctor Zhivago (Boris Pasternak) Sour grapes Sister Act X-Ray Spex Nurse Jackie...
...Man Ray chose Eugène Atget’s view of a crowd on the Place de la Bastille looking up at a solar eclipse in 1912 as the cover for La Révolution surréaliste in 1926....
...A more radical shaking-up of expectations occurs in the new novel by Ray Celestin....
...In 2012 The Scotsman newspaper described her books as “Jackie Collins . . . with a smart and sophisticated edge”....
...The first was a mask-face, encased by an auburn wig, encircled by a spiky lace ruff, an allegory for the sun and its benevolent rays....
...In Cairo, the discovery is near-abstract photographs by Lee Miller, freed in Egypt from Man Ray’s influence, and experimenting with landscapes as interior and exterior worlds....
...The “hypnotically absorbing exhibition shows how one man reinvented the possibilities of paint,” writes the FT’s chief art critic, Jackie Wullschläger....
...These creatures remind us that the sun’s rays contain infinite information, much of which we cannot see....
...Other bowls and baskets of flowers rest on red-and-white Bonnard tablecloths; at the opposite scale are panoramic views where a sun low on the horizon throws its diminishing last rays on rows of rounded...
...He wanted, he said, to reinvigorate “exhausted humanity, during a time when the old religious or other ideals were withering” and “to catch a glimpse of a ray of light which would illuminate a new meaning...
...Slow grace gives way to quick profit when the sun sets in thick rays on the grand ghostly sailing ship Temeraire and its soot-spewing tug, and a pale moon rises on a thin uncertain new world....
...He is also excited to see Ray Lee’s “Points of Departure”, a light-sculpture park in the industrial wastes of Shoreham Port....
...walls of Edel Assanti Gallery and beams on to the Fitzrovia street, a grotesque parade: a stream-of-conscious, saturated colour overload of tattooed flesh, protruding tongues, bodies eviscerated into x-ray...
...Storm Birds, by Einar Kárason, translated by Quentin Bates, MacLehose Press, RRP£12.99, 160 pages Loosely based on the real story of an Icelandic trawler that barely survived a destructive storm in 1959...
...In “Automat”, “Lighthouse Hill” and 1925’s “House by the Railroad”, the Gothic mansion set apart by the barrier of the railroad, model for the murderous Bates Hotel in Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho, he repeatedly...
...The blue shadow of Christ’s shroud brings the sky down to earth, the last rays of sun illuminate both the Magdalene’s hair and the distant grazing sheep — a harmony of the human and natural....
...The ‘Up’ series are on BritBox and on DVD/Blu-ray (Network)...
...It concludes with Man Ray’s black-and-white “Le jet d’eau”, showing no fountain, only people swarming the palace steps, and André Steiner’s “Pieds d’une passante”, a close-up of a pair of low heels on cobbles...
...Until this moment, Coppoletta’s shades were more likely to have been a pair of Ray-Bans. “I’m Italian,” he laughs. “That’s what you wore.”...
...At what temperature do books burn, according to the title of a novel by Ray Bradbury? Which two girls’ names made up the title of the problem page in Jackie magazine?...
...Pontormo’s thin figure emerging from darkness finds a modern parallel in Man Ray’s “Harry Melvill”: a photograph of slender white hands gesturing in front of a sheet of black paper....
...Oliver Bäte also accused the ECB of “multiplying risk”....
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