Ray Johnson
Subtitle: correspondences
By: exhibition organized by Donna De Salvo ; edited by Donna De Salvo and Catherine Gudis.
Contributors: De Salvo, Donna M.; Gudis, Catherine.
Publisher: Wexner Center for the Arts
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Columbus, Ohio
Language: eng
Number of pages: 224
Subjects: Johnson, Ray, -- 1927- -- Exhibitions
Genres: Exhibitions.
Other titles: Correspondences
Description: "Both this book and the exhibition it complements explore the wide range of Johnson's artistic production, including his early abstractions and graphic design broadsides of the 1950s, New York Correspondence School mailings and performances of the 1960s and 1970s, and silhouette-laden collages of the 1980s and 1990s. Many of the images reproduced here have never been published before.

The texts, too, with the exception of the 1982 interview with the artist, have been commissioned specifically for this publication. They offer historical as well as personal perspectives on the life and work of Ray Johnson, and serve as a look at this important though elusive American artist."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Exhibition itenerary, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, January 14-March 21, 1999, Werner Center for the Arts, the Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, September 17-December 31, 2000.
Table of contents: title: Correspondences / Donna De Salvo; title: "To be sad, because I was once a child": the collages of Ray Johnson / Mason Klein; title: The webmaster's solo : Ray Johnson invites us to the dance / Wendy Steiner; title: Ray Johnson fan club / Jonathan Weinberg; title: Ray Johnson's New York Correspondence School: the fine art of communication / Sharla Sava; title: Special deliverance / Lucy R. Lippard; title: Ray Johnson: the one and the other / William S. Wilson; title: Should an eyelash last forever? an interview with Ray Johnson / Henry Martin.