The following essays were written by Francis M. Naumann and Gail Stavitsky for the illustrated catalogue Conversion to Modernism -- The Early Work of Man Ray, ISBN 0-8135-3147-0, which accompanied a same-named February 16 - August 3, 2003 exhibition at The Montclair Art Museum. The essays are reprinted with permission of the Montclair Art Museum and without illustrations. If you have questions or comments regarding the essays, or wish to purchase a copy of the catalogue, please contact the Montclair Art Museum directly through either this phone number or web address:
"Conversion to Modernism"
by Francis M. Naumann
ONE
Youth and First Artistic Impulses (1907-1911)
TWO
The Ferrer Center: Formulating the Aesthetics of Anarchism (1912)
THREE
Stieglitz, Ridgefield, and the Assimilation of a Modernist Aesthetic (1913: Part 1)
FOUR
New Words for New Images: Adon Lacroix and the Modern Poetry Movement (1913: Part 2)
FIVE
Approaching the Art of Painting in Two Dimensions: The Paintings, Drawings, and Watercolors of 1914
SIX
The Art of Painting in Two Dimensions, Part I: The Paintings, Drawings, and Watercolors of 1915
SEVEN
EIGHT
NINE
From an Art in Two Dimensions to the Higher Dimension of Ideas (1920-1921)
AFTERWORD: "Artists and Art Colonies of Ridgefield, New Jersey"
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