Bibliograph

Charles Ray, figure ground, Kelly Baum and Brinda Kumar ; with contributions by Charles Ray and Hal Foster

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Label

Charles Ray, figure ground, Kelly Baum and Brinda Kumar ; with contributions by Charles Ray and Hal Foster

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 101-108) and index

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Charles Ray

Nature of contents

catalogsbibliography

Oclc number

1289267831

Responsibility statement

Kelly Baum and Brinda Kumar ; with contributions by Charles Ray and Hal Foster

Sub title

figure ground

Summary

For Charles Ray (b. 1953), one of today's foremost American artists, sculpture is a way of thinking that informs his work across a wide range of media-from gelatin silver prints to porcelain, fiberglass, and steel. Ray's practice is well known but not well understood, a paradox this volume sets out to redress. Spanning the whole of his 50-year career, Charles Ray: Figure Ground considers the artist's intriguing, often unsettling sculptures from both the twentieth and twenty-first centuries in relationship to his early photographs, performances, and installations. It also explores his long-standing fascination with Mark Twain's 1884 novel Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Kelly Baum addresses patterns and patterning in Ray's art, foregrounding his engagement with preexisting traditions, classicism among them, as well as charged issues around race, gender, and sexuality. Brinda Kumar investigates the modalities of touch that run through Ray's work, while a reflection by Ray himself and a conversation between the artist and Hal Foster offer further views into Ray's multifaceted practice. Exhibition: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA (31.01. - 05.06.2022)

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Figure ground

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