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CCaitlin HaskellJordan Carter

An engaging and scholarly introduction to the wide-ranging work of a pioneering 20th-century artist

Ray Johnson (19271995) was a renowned maker of meticulous collages whose works influenced movements including Pop Art, Fluxus, and Conceptual Art. Emerging from the interdisciplinary community of artists and poets at Black Mountain College, Johnson was extraordinarily adept at using social interaction as an artistic endeavor and founded a mail art network known as the New York Correspondence School.

Drawing on the vast collection of Johnsons work at the Art Institute of Chicago, this volume gives new shape to our understanding of his artistic practice and features hundreds of pieces that include artists books, collages, drawings, mail art, and performance documentation. In keeping with Johnsons democratic, rhizomatic, and antihierarchica