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Tristan Tzara and Man Ray

Tristan Tzara and Man Ray
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.
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Dada; French Literature; Ray, Man; Tzara, Tristan
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