Man Ray et la couture : tissu, aiguille, fil, mannequin

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  • Andrea Zucchinali Università degli Studi di Bergamo

Résumé

Whilst Man Ray’s influence in 20th century’s fashion history, as a photographer, is very well known, his relationship with tailoring – an activity that had a crucial role in Ray’s early life, as his mother was a tailor – is still to be further explored. Taking in exam different artworks, starting from the early non-pictorial Tapestry (a patchwork made of 110 samples of tissue) to the drawings published in Les Mains Libres (some of which are explicitly dedicated to the world of tailoring, like Fil et AiguilleLa Couture or Le Mannequin), and culminating in the portraits of Juliet Browner and the latest version of Tapestry (realized 62 years after the first one), it could be possible to individuate, throughout Man Ray’s whole career, a certain influence coming from tailoring’s imagery – which seems to get materialized through objects, references, images appearing in different moments of the artist’s life, emerging and disappearing like a needle in a tissue, carrying back the discontinuous trail of the thread.

Biographie de l'auteur

Andrea Zucchinali, Università degli Studi di Bergamo

Andrea Zucchinali è dottore di ricerca in Studi Umanistici Interculturali presso l’Università degli Studi di Bergamo, e in Langue française presso Sorbonne Université. Il suo ambito di ricerca principale è il rapporto tra immagine e testo nelle pratiche artistiche delle avanguardie storiche, in particolare del Surrealismo francese.
Tra le sue pubblicazioni: Jacques-André Boiffard. Storia di un occhio fotografico (Quodlibet, Roma 2015); “La Terra vista da Maximiliana: riflessioni sull'ultimo Max Ernst”, in Amelia Valtolina, Alessandro Baldacci (ed.), Elephant&Castle n. 18, Postludi. Lo stile tardo, November 2018, pp. 4-23; “Inventaire de l’effroi dans les romans-collages de Max Ernst / L’inventario del terrore nei romanzi-collage di Max Ernst”, in Franca Franchi, Pierre Glaudes (ed.), Faire peur: aux limites du visible Fare paura: ai limiti del visibile, Silvana editoriale, Cinisello Balsamo 2019, pp. 240-259; “Visible/Lisible : stratégies verbo-visuelles dans La femme 100 têtes de Max Ernst”, in Elio Grazioli, Jacques Dürrenmatt (a cura di), Cahiers de Littérature française, n. 18, Paroles et Images, 2020, pp. 37-48.

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2017-06-15

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Zucchinali, A. (2017). Man Ray et la couture : tissu, aiguille, fil, mannequin. Elephant & Castle, (16). Consulté à l’adresse https://elephantandcastle.unibg.it/index.php/eac/article/view/357

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