That was the answer : interviews with Ray Johnson / edited by Julie J. Thomson.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Thomson, Julie J., editor.

Johnson, Ray, 1927-1995, interviewee.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Johnson, Ray, 1927-1995--Interviews.

Johnson, Ray.

Johnson, Ray, 1927-1995.

Genre:

Interviews.

Physical Description:

198 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

Chicago : Soberscove Press, [2018]

Summary:

Born in Detroit, Michigan, Ray Johnson (1927-95) studied under Josef Albers and Robert Motherwell at Black Mountain College in North Carolina, and worked as a painter early in his career, exhibiting alongside Ad Reinhardt before embracing pop imagery, collage and mail art, producing thousands of collages and other works on paper. His life and death (by suicide, jumping from a bridge in Sag Harbor, Long Island) were the subject of the award-winning documentary How to Draw a Bunny (2002). 'That Was the Answer: Interviews with Ray Johnson' brings together a selection of interviews and conversations from 1963 to 1987 that offer unique access to Johnson's distinctive thinking and working methods. Throughout, Johnson's responses are marked by his humor and close attention to language. Gathering these interviews for the first time, That Was the Answer serves as an ideal introduction to Ray Johnson as well as a resource for those wanting deeper insight into this artist and his kaleidoscopic body of work.

Contents:

Introduction : how to do an interview / Julie J. Thomson

An interview with NOSNHOJ YAR (1963) / David Bourdon Jr.

Oral history interview with Ray Johnson (1968) / Sevim Fesci

Ray Johnson's world (1972) / Richard Bernstein

Illogical as an instructive process : an interview with Ray Johnson (1977) / John Held Jr.

Ray Johnson (1977) / Diane Spodarek and Randy Delbeke

Ray Johnson : conversation with R. Pieper (1979) / Richard Pieper

Should an eyelash last forever? An interview with Ray Johnson (1982) / Henry Martin

Interview with Ray Johnson (1984) / Sydne Didier, age 12

That's Interesting with Ray Johnson (1984) / Weslea Sidon

That's Interesting with Ray Johnson (1984) / Shirley Samberg

Three questions to Ray Johnson concerning his performance in the formal gardens at the Nassau County Museum of Fine Art on September 21, 1986, entitled The Jean Dubuffet Fan Club Meeting. Three answers to Clive Phillpot concerning my performance in the formal gardens at the Nassau County Museum of Fine Art on September 21, 1986, entitled The Jean Dubuffet Fan Club Meeting. (1987) / Clive Phillpot & Ray Johnson.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9781940190204

1940190207

OCLC:

1039972626