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1927 Detroit, Michigan - 1995 Sag Harbor, New York. Known for: Collage, mail art, assemblage.
Ray Johnson was a collagist but is best known as the progenitor of mail art with his New York Correspondence School, which he started in the l950s but which bloomed in the early 1960s. Johnson was... Read full biography
Ray Johnson was a collagist but is best known as the progenitor of mail art with his New York Correspondence School, which he started in the l950s but which bloomed in the early 1960s. Johnson was born in Michigan and went to Black Mountain College from l946 to l949, where he studied under Josef... Read full biography
Ray Johnson was a collagist but is best known as the progenitor of mail art with his New York Correspondence School, which he started in the l950s but which bloomed in the early 1960s. Johnson was born in Michigan and went to Black Mountain College from l946 to l949, where he studied under Josef Albers. When he left to move to New York, he met painter/photographer Norman Solomon, with whom he started walking the streets at night, collecting bits and pieces from the streets. Norman used his... Read full biography
Ray Johnson was a collagist but is best known as the progenitor of mail art with his New York Correspondence School, which he started in the l950s but which bloomed in the early 1960s. Johnson was born in Michigan and went to Black Mountain College from l946 to l949, where he studied under Josef Albers. When he left to move to New York, he met painter/photographer Norman Solomon, with whom he started walking the streets at night, collecting bits and pieces from the streets. Norman used his collections to nail to the walls as collages; Ray used his to cut up and mail to his friends. And soon he was asking his friends to mail items to other friends by writing "Please send to". Some of the mailings were forwarded, some were returned and some... Read full biography
Ray Johnson was a collagist but is best known as the progenitor of mail art with his New York Correspondence School, which he started in the l950s but which bloomed in the early 1960s. Johnson was born in Michigan and went to Black Mountain College from l946 to l949, where he studied under Josef Albers. When he left to move to New York, he met painter/photographer Norman Solomon, with whom he started walking the streets at night, collecting bits and pieces from the streets. Norman used his collections to nail to the walls as collages; Ray used his to cut up and mail to his friends. And soon he was asking his friends to mail items to other friends by writing "Please send to". Some of the mailings were forwarded, some were returned and some discarded. Through these means he was able to build up a whole network of artists adding to his original mailings and forwarding... Read full biography
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Books & Publications (35)
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Flowers on the Rock: Global and Local Buddhisms in Canada
2014Harding, John S., Victor Sogen Hori and Alexander Souci445 pagesGoin' Postal
2007Dean, Ann and Miles Collyer95 pagesThe Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005
2005AskART.com Inc. -
Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)479 pagesDavenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition
2005Davenport, Ray2,421 pagesWho Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes
1999Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)3,724 pagesRay Johnson: Correspondences
1999Salvo, Donna De224 pages (color)Hand of the Spirit: Documents of the Seventies from the Morris/Trasov Archive
1994Watson, Scott and Keith Wallace48 pages (color)Who's Who in American Art, 1993-1994, 20th Edition (American Federation of Arts)
1993Bowker R R1,473 pagesWord As Image American Art 1960-1990
1990
(Exhibition catalog)Bowman, Russell/Dean Sobel172 pages (color)Pop Art A Continuing History
1990Livingstone, Marco271 pages (color)Contemporary Artists (3rd Edition)
1989Naylor, Colin (editor)1,059 pagesTwentieth Century Watercolors
1988Finch, Christopher310 pages (color)Dictionary of Contemporary American Artists (5th Edition)
1987Cummings, Paul653 pagesMade In U S A An Americanization in Modern Art '50s & 60s
1987
(Exhibition catalog)Stich, Sidra280 pages (color)Who's Who in American Art-1986 1986
1986Jaques Cattell Press1,292 pagesCorrespondence Art: Source Book for the Network of International Postal Art Activity
1984Crane, Michael and Mary Stofflet (Editors)522 pagesThe Americans/The Collage
1982
(Exhibition catalog)Contemporary Arts Museum143 pages (color)The Oxford Companion to Twentieth Century Art
1981Osborne, Harold656 pages (color)Printed Art: A View of Two Decades
1980Castleman, Riva144 pages (color)The Sense of the Self From Self Portrait to Autobiography
1978
(Exhibition catalog)Independent Curators Inc36 pagesArt About Art
1978Lipman, Jean/Richard Marshall176 pages (color)Image Bank Post Card Show
1977Acconci, Vito et al49 pages (color)Painting and Sculpture in the Museum of Modern Art
1977Barr, Alfred H655 pagesVideo by Artists
1976Gale, Peggy223 pagesWho's Who in American Art, 1976 12th Edition
1976Jaques Cattell Press756 pagesSmithsonian Archives of American Art: Checklist of the Collection
1975Editor, Smithsonian0 pagesHistory of Collage An Anthology of Collage, Assemblage & Event Sructures
1975Wolfram, Eddie192 pages (color)Whitney Museum of American Art Catalogue of the Collection
1974Baur, John I H235 pages (color)Poets of the Cities New York and San Francisco 1950-1965
1974
(Exhibition catalog)Dallas Museum of Fine Art174 pagesWho's Who in American Art, 1973
1973Jaques Cattell Press927 pagesConcrete Poetry: A Selection in Four Parts (University of British Columbia Fine Arts Gallery)
1969Rhodes, Michael31 pagesPop Art Redefined
1969
(Exhibition catalog)Russell, John/Suzi Gablik240 pages (color)Collage: Personalities, Concepts, Techniques
1967Janis, Harriet/Rudi Blesh342 pagesDictionary of Abstract Painting with a History of Abstract Painting
1957Seuphor, Michel305 pages (color)