Man Ray

Neil Baldwin. Da Capo Press, $20 (464pp) ISBN 978-0-306-80423-6

Man Ray, a photographer/object-maker/collagist unsatisfied with mastery of just a few mediums, struggled with painting and was shunned by the art world after his 1940s foray into Hollywood filmmaking. PW called this ``a model biography--judicious, compulsively readable, rooting its subject in his cultural milieu . . . a remarkable bit of sleuthing.'' Photos. (Apr.)

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