Word: constructor
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Dates: during 1963-1963
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...friends but also created a series of "objects"-tacks fastened to a flatiron, a picture of the human eye to a metronome - that shook the salons of the '20s with cries of ecstasy and reverence. Yet Man Ray wanted fame as a painter, not as a photographer or constructor, and he spent decades trying to win it. The current exhibition of his paintings at Manhattan's Cordier & Ekstrom Gallery shows that his very genius-his gifts of invention and humor-barred him from be coming an artist of serious value. Over the years, Ray adopted whatever...