Baum, Kelly, <br/><br/>
Charles Ray :  figure ground / 
 Figure ground 
Kelly Baum and Brinda Kumar ; with contributions by Charles Ray and Hal Foster 
 - 111 pages :  illustrations (some color) ;  26 cm 
<br/><br/> "This catalogue is published in conjunction with Charles Ray: Figure Ground, on view at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, from January 31 through June 5, 2022." -- Colophon 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (pages 101-108) and index 
<br/><br/> 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 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781588397423 1588397424 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2022289013 
<br/><br/><label>Nat. Bib. No.: </label>GBC1K0299  bnb 
<br/><br/><label>Nat. Bib. Agency Control No.: </label>020408287  Uk 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Personal Names: </label><br/>Ray, Charles, 1953- --Exhibitions.<br/>Ray, Charles, 1953- 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Sculpture, American--20th century--21st century--Exhibitions.<br/>Art, American--20th century--21st century--Exhibitions.<br/>Art américain--20e siècle--21e siècle--Expositions.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Exhibition catalogs.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>NB237.R35  / A4 2022 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>730.92 RAY