Ray Johnson: Correspondences, Wexner Center for the Arts, 1999, Near Fine HC w/DJ.

De Salvo, Donna, et al. Columbus: Wexner Center for the Arts / Flammarion, Paris, 1999.

English, Near Fine, HC, 8vo, 11" x 8 1/2", 224 pp. 

ISBN: 9782080136633

Hardcover in red cloth with blind stamped lettering. Minor wear to tips, head, and tail, causing slight inward bends. Near Fine pictorial dust jacket, light creasing to tips, now in Mylar. 224 pp. Includes black-and-white and full-color images of American Neo-Dada and early Pop Art artist Ray Johnson's work. From inside the dust jacket: "Ray Johnson (1927-95) invented a truly original visual language and mastered a uniquely expressive mode of predigital communication that combined text and image, found photographs and painterly abstractions, elements of chance and careful orchestration...Both this book and the exhibition it complements explore the wide range of Johnson's artistic production, including his early abstractions and graphic design broadsides of the 1950s, New York Correspondence School mailings and performances of the 1960s and 1970s, and silhouette-laden collages of the 1980s and the 1990s." Published in conjunction with the traveling exhibition of the same name, starting at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York from January 14 to March 21, 1999. Also included is an interview with Johnson from 1982, as well as many never-before-published images.