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Actions		The Paper Snake Remove from selection Add to selection Object number1979.0134 TitleThe Paper Snake Creator Ray Johnson (vervaardiger)‎, Something Else Press Inc. (uitgever)‎ DescriptionLong out of print (and coveted by Ray Johnson fans), The Paper Snake is an essential work in Johnson’s oeuvre and the second title published by Dick Higgins’s extraordinary Something Else Press in 1965. A vertiginous, mind-bending artist’s book, The Paper Snake was far ahead of its time in its subversive and exuberant confluence of art and life. Assembled and designed by Higgins from his amassed collection of Johnson’s letters, tid-bits and artworks (said Johnson: “all my writings, rubbings, plays, things that I had mailed to him or brought to him in cardboard boxes or shoved under his door, or left in his sink, or whatever, over a period of years”), The Paper Snake connects disparate elements to unbed fixed relationships and forge new systems of meaning by means of scissors, paste and the American postal system. Production date 1965 Production period20e eeuw Object namekunstenaarsboeken Object categorykunstenaarsboeken Materialdrukpapier, drukinkt Techniqueoffsetdrukken Dimensions hoogte: 21.50 cm pagina-aantal: 26.00

Object number1979.0134

TitleThe Paper Snake

Creator Ray Johnson (vervaardiger)‎, Something Else Press Inc. (uitgever)‎

DescriptionLong out of print (and coveted by Ray Johnson fans), The Paper Snake is an essential work in Johnson’s oeuvre and the second title published by Dick Higgins’s extraordinary Something Else Press in 1965. A vertiginous, mind-bending artist’s book, The Paper Snake was far ahead of its time in its subversive and exuberant confluence of art and life. Assembled and designed by Higgins from his amassed collection of Johnson’s letters, tid-bits and artworks (said Johnson: “all my writings, rubbings, plays, things that I had mailed to him or brought to him in cardboard boxes or shoved under his door, or left in his sink, or whatever, over a period of years”), The Paper Snake connects disparate elements to unbed fixed relationships and forge new systems of meaning by means of scissors, paste and the American postal system.

Production date 1965

Production period20e eeuw

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Techniqueoffsetdrukken

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