Research Catalog

Details

Additional authors

1. Thomson, Julie J.

Description

1. 198 pages : illustrations; 22 cm

Summary

1. 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.

Uniform title

1. Interviews. Selections

Alternative title

1. Interviews.

Subject

1. Johnson, Ray, 1927-1995 > Interviews
2. Interviews
3. ART / General
4. Johnson, Ray, 1927-1995 > Entretiens

Genre/Form

1. Interviews.

Contents

1. 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.

Call number

1. JQD 19-107

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references.

Author

1. Johnson, Ray, 1927-1995, interviewee.

Title

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

Publisher

1. Chicago : Soberscove Press, [2018]

Copyright date

1. ©2018

Type of content

1. text
2. still image

Type of medium

1. unmediated

Type of carrier

1. volume

Bibliography

1. Includes bibliographical references.

Added author

1. Thomson, Julie J., editor.

LCCN

1. 2018930740

ISBN

1. 9781940190204 paperback
2. 1940190207 paperback

Research call number

1. JQD 19-107