Research Catalog

Title

Charles Ray : figure ground / Kelly Baum and Brinda Kumar ; with contributions by Charles Ray and Hal Foster.

Author

Baum, Kelly

Publication

New York : The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2022.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Ray, Charles, 1953-
• Kumar, Brinda
• Foster, Hal
• Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.), host institution

Description

111 pages : illustrations (some color); 26 cm

Summary

For Charles Ray (b. 1953), one of today's foremost American artists, sculpture is a way of thinking that informs his work across a wide range of media-from gelatin silver prints to porcelain, fiberglass, and steel. Ray's practice is well known but not well understood, a paradox this volume sets out to redress. Spanning the whole of his 50-year career, Charles Ray: Figure Ground considers the artist's intriguing, often unsettling sculptures from both the twentieth and twenty-first centuries in relationship to his early photographs, performances, and installations. It also explores his long-standing fascination with Mark Twain's 1884 novel Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Kelly Baum addresses patterns and patterning in Ray's art, foregrounding his engagement with preexisting traditions, classicism among them, as well as charged issues around race, gender, and sexuality. Brinda Kumar investigates the modalities of touch that run through Ray's work, while a reflection by Ray himself and a conversation between the artist and Hal Foster offer further views into Ray's multifaceted practice

Alternative Title

Figure ground

Subject

• Ray, Charles, 1953- > Exhibitions
• Ray, Charles, 1953-
• Sculpture, American > 20th century > 21st century > Exhibitions
• Art, American > 20th century > 21st century > Exhibitions

Genre/Form

Exhibition catalogs.

Note

• "This catalogue is published in conjunction with Charles Ray: Figure Ground, on view at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, from January 31 through June 5, 2022." -- Colophon

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 101-108) and index

Call Number

JQF 22-551

ISBN

• 9781588397423
• 1588397424

OCLC

1289267831

Author

Baum, Kelly, author.

Title

Charles Ray : figure ground / Kelly Baum and Brinda Kumar ; with contributions by Charles Ray and Hal Foster.

Publisher

New York : The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2022.

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 101-108) and index

Added Author

Ray, Charles, 1953- Works. Selections.

Kumar, Brinda, author.

Ray, Charles, 1953- writer of added commentary.

Foster, Hal, writer of added commentary.

Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.), host institution.

Research Call Number

JQF 22-551