Ellen Levy

A Book about Ray

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

"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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: MIT Press Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 394
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Oktober 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 166mm x 32mm
• Gewicht: 960g
• ISBN-13: 9780262048743
• ISBN-10: 0262048744
• Artikelnr.: 69553080

Autorenporträt

Ellen Levy

Inhaltsangabe

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