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Ray Johnson

Ray Johnson

Johnson, Ray
Connors, Matt
Ives, Lucy

Hardcover

Conceptual ArtIndividual Artists

Publisher Price: $80.00

PREORDER - Expected ship date December 29, 2026

ISBN10: 1961883376
ISBN13: 9781961883376
Publisher: Karma, New York
Published: Dec 29 2026
Pages: 560
Language: English

A prodigious compilation of works from the late 20th century's great collage and correspondence artist

This major monograph presents a vast selection of work by Ray Johnson made between 1950, the year after he moved to New York City from his hometown of Detroit, up to just before his death in 1995. In a new essay, artist Matt Connors describes the blooming off-ness [and] staunch instability of Johnson's visual lexicon as the true harmonics, the real sound of Johnson's project. Novelist and poet Lucy Ives illuminates the artist's understudied relationship to the work and life of Emily Dickinson, which Ives describes as one of his most unnerving and productive transhistorical collaborations. This volume also features a reprint of critic Henry Martin's rollicking 1972 text on Johnson, in which he asserts that the artist cuts things up in order to make them tell the truth and then he keeps all the pieces to be sure that he will continue to be able to tell the whole truth.

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