Dennis Hollingsworth

Beyond the Beyond

"Man Ray is a youthful alchemist forever in quest of the painter's philosopher's stone. May he never find it, as that would bring an end to his experimentations which are the very condition of living art expression."
?Adolf Wolff, "Art Notes", International 8, no. 1 (January 1914), p. 21.
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(Ref.: the painter's "philosopher's stone" versus a "living art expression"...)