A Book about Ray
Published on 15. October 2024
Book
Hardback
394 pages
978-0-262-04874-3 (ISBN)
Description
"This is a book about Ray Johnson, "New York's most famous unknown artist." Johnson was a collagist, performance artist, and practitioner of "correspondence art," a form he is said to have founded, which involves the circulation of variously altered missives among a web of mailers--a kind of proto-internet"--
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Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge (Massachusetts)
United States
Publishing group
MIT Press Ltd
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Illustrations
127 COLOR ILLUS., 87 BLACK AND WHITE ILLUS
Dimensions
Height: 236 mm
Width: 166 mm
Thickness: 32 mm
Weight
960 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-262-04874-3 (9780262048743)
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Schweitzer Classification
Person
Ellen Levy
Content
Table of Contents
Key to abbreviated references in notes
Notes on image credits
Prelude
1 The Other Ray Johnson
Presenting Ray Johnson. What’s in a name?
2 What Is a Moticos?
1945-1965. Homeless forms: from Black Mountain to A BOOK ABOUT DEATH.
3 ICE
1964-1967. Crystallizations: correspondence art and mosaic collage.
4 Fan Club
1963-1968. Fame as a form of art, fame as a form of death.
5 Ray Johnson’s History of
1969-1973. The art world viewed from outer space.
6 Silhouette University
1973-1980. Shadow institutions and throwaway gestures.
7 The Curtain Opens
1980-1995. “I do not exits”: Ray Johnson’s memory theater.
Coda
Acknowledgements
A selective bibliography of writings on and by Ray Johnson
Additional works cited
Index
Key to abbreviated references in notes
Notes on image credits
Prelude
1 The Other Ray Johnson
Presenting Ray Johnson. What’s in a name?
2 What Is a Moticos?
1945-1965. Homeless forms: from Black Mountain to A BOOK ABOUT DEATH.
3 ICE
1964-1967. Crystallizations: correspondence art and mosaic collage.
4 Fan Club
1963-1968. Fame as a form of art, fame as a form of death.
5 Ray Johnson’s History of
1969-1973. The art world viewed from outer space.
6 Silhouette University
1973-1980. Shadow institutions and throwaway gestures.
7 The Curtain Opens
1980-1995. “I do not exits”: Ray Johnson’s memory theater.
Coda
Acknowledgements
A selective bibliography of writings on and by Ray Johnson
Additional works cited
Index