Campaign Outsider Critics Corner (Man Ray/Lee Miller Edition)

Well the Missus and I went up to the Peabody Essex Museum to take in the Man Ray | Lee Miller, Partners in Surrealism exhibit and it was swell.

From the PEM website:

Man Ray | Lee Miller, Partners in Surrealism

From 1929 to 1932, Man Ray and Lee Miller — two giants of the European Surrealism movement — lived together in Paris, first as teacher and student, and later as lovers. Their mercurial relationship resulted in some of the most powerful work of each artist’s career, and helped shape the course of modern art. Combining rare vintage photographs, paintings, sculpture and drawings, this exhibition tells the story of the artists’ brief but intense association and reveals the nature of their creative partnership.

Which was excellent for a while, then not so good, then they broke up, then Man Ray broke down and started acting like a 14-year-old girl, writing “Elizabeth [Miller’s given name] Lee” over and over in his notebook and constructing Object to be Destroyed by placing a photo of Miller’s eye on a metronome that was supposed to be shattered with one blow of a hammer.

Oh, yeah – there was also this, modeled on Miller’s lips:

Regardless, an excellent exhibit.

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