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The Ray Johnson Videos

This website has been launched at www.rayjohnson.org.

The videos are comprised of over seven hours of rare video footage of Ray Johnson, a conceptual and visual artist who is considered to be the founder of the Mail Art movement.

The painter Chuck Close in A Panel Discussion on Ray Johnson:

Ray was a much more important artist than was generally recognized by the art world. He was an idiosyncratic figure. I think he was very inventive in bringing his work, through his collages, and things that he's known for, actually, predating Pop Art with the use of pop subject matter before Lichtenstein and Warhol. But, probably, he is best known to the general public as the inventor of the Correspondence School and of mail art.

 

The Ray Johnson Tapes: Ray at Hofstra 19 April 04

Section: rayjohnson

Categories: dvd

I have begun watching the first chapters of this excellent work.
For more information see the Sections: Ray Johnson in the links on the right.

See also this recent entry here on Andy Warhol.

rayjohnson

Title: The Ray Johnson Tapes: Ray at Hofstra (first chapter on DVD ONE)

A Work by: Nicholas Maravell

Taped: 1987

Edited for release on DVD: 2004

  • Title: The Ray Johnson Tapes: Ray at Hofstra