Research Catalog

Title

Not nothing : selected writings by Ray Johnson, 1954-1994 / edited by Elizabeth Zuba ; essay by Kevin Killian.

Author

Johnson, Ray, 1927-1995

Publication

Los Angeles, California : Siglio, [2014]

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Details

Additional Authors

• Zuba, Elizabeth
• Killian, Kevin

Description

379 pages : illustrations (some color); 26 cm

Summary

"Ray Johnson, considered the progenitor of Correspondence art, blurred the boundaries between life and art, authorship and intimacy. The defining nature of his work were his letters (often both visual and textual in character), intended to be received, replied to (altered and embellished) and read, again and again. This lovingly curated collection of more than 200 mostly previously unpublished writings - including selected letters, minutes for "New York Correspondence School" meetings, hand-written notes and other writings - opens a new view into the whirling flux of Johnson's art, highlighting his keen sense of play as well as his attuned sensitivity to both language and the shifting nature of meaning. Cumulatively, the writings reveal not only how he created relationships, glyphs and puzzles by connecting words, phrases, people and ideas, but also something about the elusive Johnson himself"--From the publisher.

Uniform Title

Works. Selections.

Alternative Title

Works.

Subject

• Johnson, Ray, 1927-1995
• Johnson, Ray, 1927-1995 > Correspondence
• Artists > United States > Correspondence

Genre/Form

Records and correspondence

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction / Elizabeth Zuba -- Ray Johnson story, for his selected writings / Kevin Killian -- Selected writings by Ray Johnson, 1954-1994 -- Ray Johnson biography -- Cast of correspondents.

ISBN

• 1938221044
• 9781938221040

OCLC

• 875706915
• SCSB-11444872

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library