Ray Johnson : paintings and collages 1950-66.
"Sometime in the late 1950s, Ray Johnson destroyed a cache of his earlier work: paintings, some collages, even his class notes from Black Mountain College, the experimental liberal arts school outside Asheville, North Carolina, which he had attended a decade prior. [. . .] This exhibition at Cr...
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| Format: | Book |
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| Language: | English |
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New York, NY :
Craig Starr Gallery,
[2024]
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| Summary: | "Sometime in the late 1950s, Ray Johnson destroyed a cache of his earlier work: paintings, some collages, even his class notes from Black Mountain College, the experimental liberal arts school outside Asheville, North Carolina, which he had attended a decade prior. [. . .] This exhibition at Craig Starr Gallery presents a collection of early work by Ray Johnson that survived his ritual purge. Positioning rarely seen abstract paintings alongside intricate pasted-paper collages, this focused presentation demonstrates that painting and collage were not separate phases in Johnson's oeuvre but rather were coterminous practices, or, to use the artist's preferred term, they were in correspondence"--Page [3], Johanna Gosse. |
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| Item Description: | Catalog published to accompany the exhibition of the same name held March 28-June 8, 2024, at Craig Starr Gallery, New York City. Edition of 1,000 copies. |
| Physical Description: | 56 unnumbered pages : color illustrations, black and white photographs and portraits ; 23 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: | 9781734723946 1734723947 |