Store besparelser
Hurtig levering
Gemte
Log ind
0
Kurv
Kurv
Ray Johnson
Engelsk Hardback
Ray Johnson
Engelsk Hardback

478 kr
Tilføj til kurv
Sikker betaling
6 - 8 hverdage

Om denne bog

Ray Johnson (1927–95) was a seminal Pop artist, a proto-conceptualist and a pioneer of mail art.

Always one to throw sand in the gears of art-world institutions, he tended to circulate his work either in truly alternative spaces (like sticking up out of the uneven floorboards of a warehouse downtown) or through the US Postal Service. Throughout his life, Johnson sent collages, drawings and less easily categorized forms of printed matter to friends, colleagues and strangers. Already in 1965, Grace Glueck described Johnson as “New York’s most famous unknown artist.”

Though his work resists efforts to pin it down, Johnson can be said to have found a particularly useful medium in collage. Collage allowed Johnson to reflect—but also to participate in—the modern collision of visual and verbal information that only became more frenzied as the 20th century wore on.

This volume collects 42 collages made by Johnson between 1966 and 1994, most never exhibited or published before, with a new essay by writer Brad Gooch, who first came into contact with Johnson when he began receiving unsolicited mail art shortly before the artist’s death. The collection of works in this volume shows the artist at his most expansive, combining art history with celebrity, word with image and the personal with the universal.

Product detaljer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
192
ISBN-13:
9781944929114
Indbinding:
Hardback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
1944929118
Kategori:
Udg. Dato:
7 sep 2017
Længde:
21mm
Bredde:
233mm
Højde:
180mm
Forlag:
Matthew Marks Gallery
Oplagsdato:
7 sep 2017
Forfatter(e):
Books from the same author
Radiant
Brad Gooch
411 kr
Kategori sammenhænge