Man Ray in America Author:Curtis L. Carter & Francis M. Naumann Man Ray (1890-1976) is known as one of the founders and an important contributor to Dada and Surrealism. Both movements arose in the 1920s and 1930s out of disillusionment over the failure of traditional conventions and values based on reason, science, and classical and Renaissance approaches to art, to circumvent the self-destructive, war torn ... more »course of western civilization.« less