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      Ray Johnson and William S. Wilson: Frog Pond Splash: Collages by Ray Johnson with Texts by William S. Wilson

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      This gemlike Ray Johnson book celebrates his friendship with writer and logophile William S. Wilson in pictures and wordsA New York Times critics' pick | Best Art Books 2020Dubbed "Ray Johnson's Boswell," writer and logophile William S. Wilson was one of legendary artist Ray J...

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      Product ID:9781938221279
      Product Form:Hardback
      Country of Manufacture:US
      Title:Ray Johnson and William S. Wilson: Frog Pond Splash
      Subtitle:Collages by Ray Johnson with Texts by William S. Wilson
      Authors:Author: William Wilson, Elizabeth Zuba
      Page Count:88
      Subjects:Individual artists, art monographs, Individual artists, art monographs
      Description:Select Guide Rating
      This gemlike Ray Johnson book celebrates his friendship with writer and logophile William S. Wilson in pictures and wordsA New York Times critics' pick | Best Art Books 2020Dubbed "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 Editor Elizabeth Zuba has selected short, perspicacious texts by Wilson (from both published and unpublished writings) and collage works by Johnson to create juxtapositions that do not explicate or illustrate; rather, they form a loose collage-like letter of works and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.

      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.


      Imprint Name:Siglio Press
      Publisher Name:Siglio Press
      Country of Publication:GB
      Publishing Date:2021-01-07

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      Weight214 g
      Dimensions140 × 186 × 13 mm