ABSTRACT
'Vogue', the name of a magazine, is also a term that describes its function: a prevailing or popular fashion. Vogue magazine was one of the vital forums for the meeting and intersection of avant-garde culture with fashion, art and industry in the early twentieth century. Design history speaks insistently of 'influence' in its account of art deco as a stylistic category: the 'influence' of'Egyptology, the Orient, tribal Africa and the Ballets Russes'. Mexico and Aztec references might also be included, but the notion of'influence' is unable to live up to the pressures which bear on it as an explanatory Category. Man Ray was one figure who moved easily between these respective discourses of art and commerce, in particular, the avant-garde domain of surrealism and athe consumer industry of fashion. The 'objet surréaliste' is mostly associated with surrealism of the 1930s and the emphasis that Salvador Dali is claimed to have brought to it.
