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- Condition
- Good
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- ISBN
- 9781938221279
- Book Title
- Ray Johnson and William S. Wilson: Frog Pond Splash : Collages by Ray Johnson with Texts by William S. Wilson
- Item Length
- 7.2 in
- Publisher
- Siglio Press
- Publication Year
- 2020
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Illustrator
- Yes
- Item Height
- 0.5 in
- Genre
- Art
- Topic
- Individual Artists / Artists' Books
- Item Width
- 5.5 in
- Item Weight
- 8 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 88 Pages
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This gemlike Ray Johnson book celebrates his friendship with writer and logophile William S. Wilson in pictures and words A New York Times critics' pick Best Art Books 2020 Dubbed "Ray Johnson's Boswell," writer and logophile William S. Wilson was one of legendary artist Ray Johnson's closest friends and biggest champions. He was also perhaps Johnson's most trusted poetic muse and synthesizer of referents and references. The influence was mutual: throughout their lifelong friendship, begun when both men were in their twenties, writer and artist challenged and enriched one another's work. Published on the occasion of the exhibition of Ray Johnson works from Wilson's archive at the Art Institute of Chicago, Frog Pond Splash embodies the energy, expansiveness and motion of their work and their friendship. Editor Elizabeth Zuba has selected short, perspicacious texts by Wilson (from both published and unpublished writings) and collage works by Johnson to create juxtapositions that do not explicate or illustrate; rather, they form a loose collage-like letter of works and writings that are less bound than assembled, allowing the reader to put the pieces together, to respond, to add to and return to the way Johnson required of his correspondents and fellow travelers. Taking its title from Wilson's haiku equivalence of Johnson's process, Frog Pond Splash is a small book but many things: a collage-like homage to their friendship, a treasure chest of prismatic "correspondances," as well as an unusual portrait of the disappearing, fractured Johnson through Wilson's words. Zuba's nuanced selection and arrangement of images and texts in this sumptuous little volume honors Johnson's "open system" (which rejected closed and consistent meanings, codes and symbols) in its open, associative, and intimate playfulness.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Siglio Press
ISBN-10
1938221273
ISBN-13
9781938221279
eBay Product ID (ePID)
13050387921
Product Key Features
Book Title
Ray Johnson and William S. Wilson: Frog Pond Splash : Collages by Ray Johnson with Texts by William S. Wilson
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Individual Artists / Artists' Books
Publication Year
2020
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Art
Number of Pages
88 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
7.2 in
Item Height
0.5 in
Item Width
5.5 in
Item Weight
8 Oz
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
Lc Classification Number
Mlcs 2023/47510 (N)
Reviews
[William S. Willson's] analytical intellect found unforeseen but welcome trial in [Ray] Johnson's synaptic leaps., Texts by Wilson and collage works by Johnson assemble juxtapositions and counterparts that do not explicate or illustrate; rather, they form a loose collage-like letter of works and writings that invite the reader to put the pieces together, to respond, and to add and return to the way both men required of their correspondents and each other., The artist Ray Johnson (1927-1995) and the writer William S. Wilson (1932-2016) were decades-long friends -- soul mates really is the word -- and comparably skilled acrobats of images and words. This lovely little book pairs well-known collages by Johnson, the inventor of Mail Art, with little known writing on him by Wilson, and it's a serious pleasure, just the thing to light up a dark-early, late-year night., Presents a selection of Johnson's collage works across four decades, placing them alongside excerpts of [poet William S.] Wilson's writings on Johnson [..] the handsomely bound volume furnishes an understanding of the deep artistic rapport that the pair sustained over more than 40 years of friendship
Text by
Wilson, William
Lccn
2022-278717
Dewey Decimal
709.2
Dewey Edition
23
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