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Yale University Press - Ray Johnson C/ O - Paperback
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Description: A New York Times best art book of 2021 A gold mine of a book Funny biting morbid it's a page - turner for sure. Holland Cotter New York Times Ray Johnson (1927 1995) was a renowned maker of meticulous collages whose works influenced movements including Pop Art Fluxus and Conceptual Art. Emerging from the interdisciplinary community of artists and poets at Black Mountain College Johnson was extraordinarily adept at using social interaction as an artistic endeavor and founded a mail art network known as the New York Correspondence School. Drawing on the vast collection of Johnson's work at the Art Institute of Chicago this volume gives new shape to our understanding of his artistic practice and features hundreds of pieces that include artist's books collages drawings mail art and performance documentation. In keeping with Johnson's democratic rhizomatic and antihierarchical ethos this indispensable resource on the artist's oeuvre contains 700 illustrations many of them never before published and twenty - one short essays by various contributors that allow readers to dip into and out of the book in a nonlinear manner. Distributed for the Art Institute of Chicago Exhibition Schedule: Art Institute of Chicago (November 26, 2021 March 21, 2022)
Title: Ray Johnson C/ O
Brand: Yale University Press
Barcode: 9780300254334
Pages: 376 Pages, 700 Color Illus.
Publication Date: 4/27/2021
Category: Exhibition Catalogues & Specific Collections
Description: A New York Times best art book of 2021 A gold mine of a book Funny biting morbid it's a page - turner for sure. Holland Cotter New York Times Ray Johnson (1927 1995) was a renowned maker of meticulous collages whose works influenced movements including Pop Art Fluxus and Conceptual Art. Emerging from the interdisciplinary community of artists and poets at Black Mountain College Johnson was extraordinarily adept at using social interaction as an artistic endeavor and founded a mail art network known as the New York Correspondence School. Drawing on the vast collection of Johnson's work at the Art Institute of Chicago this volume gives new shape to our understanding of his artistic practice and features hundreds of pieces that include artist's books collages drawings mail art and performance documentation. In keeping with Johnson's democratic rhizomatic and antihierarchical ethos this indispensable resource on the artist's oeuvre contains 700 illustrations many of them never before published and twenty - one short essays by various contributors that allow readers to dip into and out of the book in a nonlinear manner. Distributed for the Art Institute of Chicago Exhibition Schedule: Art Institute of Chicago (November 26, 2021 March 21, 2022)
Title: Ray Johnson C/ O
Brand: Yale University Press
Barcode: 9780300254334
Pages: 376 Pages, 700 Color Illus.
Publication Date: 4/27/2021
Category: Exhibition Catalogues & Specific Collections
