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A Book about Ray

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Availability:In StockContributor:Ellen LevyPublish date:2024-10-15Pages:394
Language:EnglishPublisher:MIT PressISBN-13:9780262048743ISBN-10:262048744UPC:9780262048743Book Category:Art, Biography & AutobiographyBook Subcategory:History, Artists, Architects, Photographers, AmericanBook Topic:Contemporary (1945- )Size:9.23 x 6.55 x 1.28 inchesWeight:2.1208Product ID:SCP6DYMJK8

A Book about Ray

The first full-career survey of the idiosyncratic life and work of Ray Johnson, a collagist, performance artist, and pioneer of mail art.

Ray 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...
Language:EnglishPublisher:MIT PressISBN-13:9780262048743ISBN-10:262048744UPC:9780262048743Book Category:Art, Biography & AutobiographyBook Subcategory:History, Artists, Architects, Photographers, AmericanBook Topic:Contemporary (1945- )Size:9.23 x 6.55 x 1.28 inchesWeight:2.1208Product ID:SCP6DYMJK8
Ellen Levy is the author of Criminal Ingenuity: Moore, Cornell, Ashbery, and the Struggle Between the Arts as well as essays on poetry, visual art, theater, and film. Currently a Visiting Associate Professor at Pratt Institute, she has also taught at Vanderbilt University and the School of Visual Arts in New York.
Publisher: MIT Press

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Ellen Levy

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