JOHNSON Ray Edward
(Detroit 1927 - New York 1995)
The Paper Snake
Luogo: New York
Editore: The Something Else Press
Stampatore: senza indicazione dello stampatore
Anno: 1965 (febbraio)
Legatura: legatura editoriale in tela , sovraccopertina
Dimensioni: 26x21 cm.
Pagine: pp. 52 n.n. compresi i risguardi
Descrizione: copertina illustrata a colori, un testo di William Wilson su Ray E. Johnson ai risvolti di copertina. Libro d'artista con riproduzioni di testi, collage, ritagli e disegni inviati da Ray Johnson a Dick Higgins per posta in modo da creare molteplici e differenti relazioni di senso. Impaginazione di Dick Higgins. Secondo libro pubblicato dalla Something Else Press. Prima edizione, esemplare nella tiratura ordinaria.
Bibliografia: Peter Frank, «Something Else Press. An annotated bibliography», McPherson & Company, 1983: p. 8; Archivio della Fondazione Luigi Bonotto: Code FX0990
Prezzo: € 150ORDINA / ORDER
Libro pubblicato in due tirature: una tiratura ordinaria di 1840 esemplari rilegati e una tiratura speciale di 197 esemplari con un collage o un ephemera originali dell'autore.
Ray Johnson descrive così il contenuto del libro: "All my writings, rubbings, plays, things that I had mailed to [Higgins] or brought to him in cardboard boxes or shoved under his door, or left in his sink, or whatever, over a period of years". Dick Higgins nel suo saggio «The Hatching of the Paper Snake» scrive: "I was fascinated by the way that the small works which Ray Johnson used to send through the mail seemed so rooted in their moment and their context and yet somehow they seemed to acquire new and larger meaning as time went along... Since a book is a more permanent body than a mailing piece or even than our own physical ones, I could not help wondering what it would be like to make a new body for Johnson’s ideas as a sort of love letter or time capsule for the future".
Ray Johnson descrive così il contenuto del libro: "All my writings, rubbings, plays, things that I had mailed to [Higgins] or brought to him in cardboard boxes or shoved under his door, or left in his sink, or whatever, over a period of years". Dick Higgins nel suo saggio «The Hatching of the Paper Snake» scrive: "I was fascinated by the way that the small works which Ray Johnson used to send through the mail seemed so rooted in their moment and their context and yet somehow they seemed to acquire new and larger meaning as time went along... Since a book is a more permanent body than a mailing piece or even than our own physical ones, I could not help wondering what it would be like to make a new body for Johnson’s ideas as a sort of love letter or time capsule for the future".
