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

By:

Baum, Kelly [author.]

Contributor(s):

Material type: Text

TextPublisher: New York : The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2022Description: 111 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cmContent type:

text
still image

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

9781588397423
1588397424

Other title:

Figure ground

Contained works:

Ray, Charles, 1953- Works. Selections

Subject(s):

Genre/Form:

Exhibition catalogs.

DDC classification:

730.92 RAY 23

LOC classification:

NB237.R35 A4 2022

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

Holdings
Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Standard Loan	LSAD Library Exhibition Catalogues	730.92 RAY (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Missing		39002100605733

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

This career-spanning publication features conceptual, political, formal, and technical perspectives on the work of contemporary sculptor Charles Ray

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.

"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

Includes bibliographical references (pages 101-108) and index

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

Author notes provided by Syndetics

Kelly Baum is the Cynthia Hazen Polsky and Leon Polsky Curator of Contemporary Art, and Brinda Kumar is associate curator, both in the Department of Modern and Contemporary Art at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.