Description:
One of The New Yorker's Best Books of 2022
One of The New York Times' 100 Notable Books of 2022
One of ArtNet's Art Books They Couldn't Put Down in 2022
One of Harper Bazaar's Top 100 in 2022
A dazzling portrait of Paris's forgotten artist and cabaret star, whose incandescent life asks us to see the history of modern art in new ways.
Brief description: Mark Braude is a cultural historian and the author of Kiki Man Ray, The Invisible Emperor, and Making Monte Carlo. He has been a visiting fellow at the American Library in Paris, a postdoctoral fellow at Stanford, a National Endowment for the Humanities Public Scholar, and the recipient of a Silvers Grant. He lives in Vancouver with his family.
Review Quotes: Exquisitely crafted...[S]harp and succinct...Kiki Man Ray rescues its protagonist from the dustbin of history and advocates eloquently for the vitality and importance of the world she helped to forge.--Hamilton Cain "Wall Street Journal"