Ray Johnson: The Paper Snake

Ray Johnson: The Paper Snake

Long out of print and unavailable to wider audiences, The Paper Snake is an essential work in Ray Johnsonâ€™s oeuvre and the second title published by Dick Higginsâ€™ Something Else Press, in 1965. Johnson describes the book as "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." A vertiginous, mind-bending artistâ€™s book, The Paper Snake was far ahead of its time. In his essay "The Hatching of the Paper Snake," Higgins says: "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 Johnsonâ€™s ideas as a sort of love letter or time capsule for the future." A collection of letters, little plays, tid-bits, collages and drawings, The Paper Snake connects disparateÂ elements to unbed fixed relationships and forge new systems of meaning by means of scissors, paste and the American postal system.
Country USA
Brand Siglio Press
Manufacturer Siglio
Binding Hardcover
ItemPartNumber colour illustrations
ReleaseDate 2014-07-31
UnitCount 1
Format Illustrated
EANs 9781938221033

Country	USA
Brand	Siglio Press
Manufacturer	Siglio
Binding	Hardcover
ItemPartNumber	colour illustrations
ReleaseDate	2014-07-31
UnitCount	1
Format	Illustrated
EANs	9781938221033

Ray Johnson: The Paper Snake

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