Histoire naturelle
Man Ray American
Not on view
A painter, sculptor, and photographer, Man Ray was associated with the Surrealists in Paris throughout the 1920s and 1930s. In keeping with the movement’s desire to defamiliarize the everyday through found objects, he has transformed this petrified sea horse— once moist and supple—from small to monumental, active to static, and harmless to monstrous.
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