| The careers of Man Ray, left, and Tristan Tzara, right, influenced several major art movements. Tzara, a philosopher and poet, helped found the Dada movement, a school of politics, performance, and art that emerged in reaction to the horrors of World War I. American-born Ray had exchanged letters with Tzara before moving to Paris in 1921 to pursue a career in photography. Ray’s interest in the absurd influenced his photographs and his later work on surrealist motion pictures. |