The Red Table
oil on canvas
1920
Fernand Léger
France

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Outhouse Circa 1920 by Brian Wallace Outhouse Circa 1920 Photograph by Brian Wallace

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The Coat Stand, 1920, published in New York Dada in 1921. Man Ray teamed up with Duchamp to publish one issue of New York Dada in 1920. For Man Ray, Dada's experimentation was no match for the wild and chaotic streets of New York.He wrote that "Dada cannot live in New York. All New York is dada, and will not tolerate a rival."

Man Ray (born Emmanuel Radnitzky; August 27, 1890 – November 18, 1976) was an American naturalized French visual artist who spent most of his career in Paris. He was a significant contributor to the Dada and Surrealist movements, although his ties to each were informal. He produced major works in a variety of media but considered himself a painter above all. He was a photography innovator as well as a fashion and portrait photographer, and is noted for his work with photograms, which he called "rayographs" in reference to himself.

Man Ray
The Coat Stand
photograph
1920

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New Corn Katsina doll - Hemis
Katsina
Hopi, Arizona, USA
Circa 1900-1920
Height: 50.8 cm

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Sculptor Constantin Brancusi believed the material with which he worked had its own life, a uniqueness and essence that he had to seek out in order to reveal the form contained within. In Leda, sculptural metamorphosis became the very subject of the work. According to classical mythology, the god Zeus changed into a swan in order to seduce the beautiful Leda. Brancusi explained to visitors to his studio that he chose to transform the transformation—changing Leda, rather than Zeus, into a swan. He explained, “I never could imagine a male being turned into a swan, impossible, but a woman, yes, quite easily.” Brancusi envisioned the form “ceaselessly creating a new life, a new rhythm,” which he enhanced by its circular concrete base, a type that he designed by 1916 and used in various sizes for many different sculptures.

Leda
marble
1920
Constantin Brancusi

Romanian, active France, 1876–1957

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