A Book about Ray

by Ellen Levy Hardcover

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The Nile on eBay A Book about Ray by Ellen Levy The first full-career survey of the idiosyncratic life and work of Ray Johnson, a collagist, performance artist, and pioneer of mail art. FORMATHardcover CONDITIONBrand New Publisher Description The first full-career survey of the idiosyncratic life and work of Ray Johnson, a collagist, performance artist, and pioneer of mail first full-career survey of the idiosyncratic life and work of Ray Johnson, a collagist, performance artist, and pioneer of mail Johnson (1927-1995), a.k.a. New York s most famous unknown artist, was notorious for the elaborate games he played with the institutions of the art world, soliciting their attention even as he rejected their invitations. In A Book about Ray, Ellen Levy offers a comprehensive study of the artist who turned the business of career-making into a tongue-in-cheek performance, tracing his artistic development from his arrival at Black Mountain College in 1945 to his death in 1995. Levy describes Johnson s practice as one that was constantly shifting-whether in tone, in its address to potential audiences, or among three primary artistic modes- collage, performance, and correspondence art.A Book about Ray takes an elliptical path, circling around rather than trying to arrest in flight the elusive artist and his purposefully ephemeral art. By crafting the book in this way, Levy evokes Ray Johnson s art in the moment of its making and draws readers into the artist s world, while making them

• Binding: Hardcover
• ISBN: 9780262048743
• Condition: Fine

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