Ray Johnson: Correspondences, Wexner Center for the Arts, Flammarion, 1999, HC, NF.

De Salvo, Donna, et al. Columbus, Ohio, Wexner Center for the Arts, and Flammarion, 1999. 

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

ISBN: 9782080136633

Red cloth over board, blind stamped lettering to front and spine, blind stamped illustration to spine, minor sunning to top edge, otherwise, superior copy inside and out, with only the most minimal, unobtrusive wear to bindings, text-block, dust jacket and endpapers. Near Fine pictorial dust jacket, Ray Johnson's 1957-58 artwork "Untitled (Woman in Carriage)" to front, his artwork "Undated mailing" to back, white lettering to front, spine, and interior flaps, minor wear, otherwise, clean and intact. [6] 224 pp., replete with full-color and black-and-white images, black illustrated endpapers, Foreword by Sherri Geldin, Introduction by Donna de Salvo and Catherine Gudis, essays by Donna De Salvo, Mason Klein, Lucy Lippard, Henry Martin, Sharla Sava, Wendy Steiner, Jonathan Weinberg, and William S. Wilson, Selected Biographical Chronology and Exhibition History, Selected Bibliography by Muffet Jones, and List of Works. Published in conjunction with the traveling exhibition "Ray Johnson: Correspondences" first at the Whitney Museum of American Art from January 14 to March 21, 1999, then at the Wexner Center for the Arts at The Ohio State University from September 17 to December 31, 2000. From the inside of dust jacket: "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 1990s."