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A close look at Man Ray’s interwar portraiture, as well as the friendships between the photographer and his subjects: the international avant garde in Paris Shortly after his arrival in Paris in July 1921, Man Ray (1890–1976)—the pseudonym of Emmanuel Radnitzky—embarked on a sustained campaign to document the city’s international avant-garde in a series of remarkable portraits that established his reputation as one of the leading photographers of his era. Man Ray’s subjects included cultural luminaries such as Berenice Abbott, André Breton, Jean Cocteau, Marcel Duchamp, Ernest Hemingway, Miriam Hopkins, Aldous Huxley, James Joyce, Lee Miller, Méret Oppenheim, Pablo Picasso, Alice Prin (Kiki de Montparnasse), Elsa Schiaparelli, Erik Satie, and Gertrude Stein. As this lavishly illustrated publication demonstrates, Man Ray’s portraits went beyond recording the mere outward appearance of the person depicted and aimed instead to capture the essence of his sitters as creative individuals, as well as the collective nature and character of Les Années folles (the crazy years) of Paris between the two world wars, when the city became famous the world over as a powerful and evocative symbol of artistic freedom and daring experimentation. Distributed for the Virginia Museum of Fine ArtsExhibition Schedule:Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond (October 30, 2021–February 21, 2022)

Produced in conjunction with the exhibition Jacques Lipchitz and Philadelphia at the Philadelphia Museum of Art from June 27 to August 22, 2004, this publication examines the special relationship between Jacques Lipchitz (1891-1973) and the city of Philadelphia. The artist's involvement with the city spanned more than fifty years, beginning in 1922, when Dr. Albert C. Barnes commissioned him to execute bas-reliefs for the Barnes Foundation building in nearby Merion, and culminating in 1976, when Lipchitz's monumental sculpture Government of the People was posthumously unveiled near City Hall. During the last three decades of his life, following his move to the United States in 1941, Lipchitz was a frequent visitor to Philadelphia, where he received major commissions for public sculpture, was twice honoured by the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, and had an important retrospective exhibition at the Philadelphia Museum of Art in 1964. The text by Michael R. Taylor, Associate Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art, is extensively illustrated with the outstanding works by Lipchitz found throughout the area, including at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, whose already impressive holdings of his art - the largest collection outside of Israel - were further enriched by the recent gift of five sculptures from the Jacques and Yulla Lipchitz Foundation in honour of the institution's 125th Anniversary. A checklist of the works in the exhibition completes the publication.

What if God decided to come back down to earth again and walk around as "One of Us"; what if? Joan Osborne's song "One of Us" was one of the inspirations behind "One of Us/The Adventures of Al O'heem". The idea naturally evolved into a collection of wonderful stories that equally delight, provoke and engage the reader. God (Al O'heem) comes back this time as a big, muscular iron worker with a propensity for Harley Davidson motorcycles, pie (especially coconut cream), the open road and of course loving, teaching and bettering people along the way. Open the book and enjoy the ride...

Civil Wars/Changing of the Guard is the second book in The Adventures of Al O'heem series that was inspired by Joan Osborne's song "One of Us". The first book in the series, One of Us/The Adventures of Al O'heem, explores the humanity of God in contemporary surroundings. Al O'heem (Elohim) is approachable, unconventional, loving and enjoyably entertaining while interacting with people and cultivating wonderfully enduring relationships. The second book of the series, Civil Wars/Changing of the Guard, explores the Supernatural as Al O'heem (Elohim) pulls back the veil and allows us to experience Angels and Demons, Spirits and Voodoo, Traitures and Warrior Priests and see Al O'heem's Divine authority in action.

S.O.S./At The End of All Things is the third book In The Adventures of Al O'heem series that was inspired by Joan Osborne's song "One of Us". The first book of the series, One of us/The Adventures of Al O'heem, explores the humanity of God and His insatiable desire to engender loving relationships with his creation. The second book of the series, Civil Wars/Changing of The Guard, explores the supernatural authority of God on the earth and what goes on in the unseen world of Angels and demons, spirits and voodoo, witches and warrior priests. The third book of the series, S.O.S./At The End of All Things, explores the authority of "The God of the Angel Armies" in heaven and on earth and the powerful alliance between Angels and humans as we "fight not against flesh and blood, but we fight against principalities and powers, the spiritually wicked rulers of darkness in high places." Be it a mighty Warrior Angel from heaven or a lowly priest on earth; no one survives this battle alone...