The below were mostly rescued from Google, 19 August 2005; somebody needed to do this. Needs more organization & updating. Updates, as they are added, will be posted here as they are added to this page.) Compiled by Dan Visel, email dbvisel AT gmail.com.
Books
(See this LibraryThing page.)
- Why I Don’t Write Like Franz Kafka. Ecco Press, 1977; FC2 2003. FC2 page. On Amazon, LibraryThing.
- Birthplace: moving into nearness, North Point Press, 1982. On Amazon, LibraryThing.
- Ray Johnson Ray Johnson. PDF, 5.4Mb. 1977 Between Books edition. On Catnyp (NYPL), LibraryThing.
- Ray Johnson John Willenbecher. PDF, 8.3Mb. A second Between Books edition, from some time later. On LibraryThing.
- Black Mountain College Dossiers No. 4: Ray Johnson, includes With Ray: the art of friendship. On Amazon, LibraryThing.
Stories/articles
- Paris Review 70 (summer 1977), includes “Conveyance: ‘The story I would never want Bill Wilson to read’”. On Amazon, Bookfinder, LibraryThing.
- Antaeus 19 (autumn 1975); includes Joseph McElroy’s “Wilson’s Métier,” on Wilson’s fiction. On Amazon, Bookfinder, LibraryThing.
- Antaeus 20 (winter 1976). On Amazon, Bookfinder, LibraryThing.
- Antaeus 21/22 (spring/summer 1976). On Amazon, Bookfinder.
- TriQuarterly 34 (fall 1975), includes “Desire,” pp. 58–61. On Amazon, Bookfinder.
- Ray Johnson: Correspondences, ed. Donna De Salvo, Flammarion, 1999. Includes “Ray Johnson: the one and the other.” On Amazon, LibraryThing.
- William S. Wilson, “Exegetical Grammar in the House of Frame,” English Language Notes 1 (1964), 244–288.
- William S. Wilson, “Scholastic Logic in Chaucer’s House of Fame,” Chaucer Review, i, 3 (Winter 1967), 181–184.
- William S. Wilson, “Picasso,” Art Journal, 56, 1 (Spring 1997), pp.88–93.
Online documents
- The Big Book. Review of The Big Book by Alison Knowles from Art in America, referenced here.
- The Big Book. Another review of The Big Book by Alison Knowles, this one from the Journal of Typographical Research.
Appearances
- Short biography at FC2
- Mention in a Joseph Taibbi review at EBR
- Review of Black Mountain College Dossiers No. 4: Ray Johnson and Daniel Wenk’s The Truth on Tape
- Bits of a letter feature in a Joseph Taibbi piece on Daniel Wenk
- A mention of Why I Don’t . . . from the same piece
- A mention in Trey Strecker’s “The Mind Fields of Joseph McElroy”
- A mention on mail art & artists
- Ray Johnson bibliography
- Another Ray Johnson bibliography, compiled with Bill’s help
- A third Ray Johnson bibliography
- Appearance of “interim” (published in Anteus 25, 1977) in a mammoth science fiction bibliography
- Mention of WSW’s review of Ernest Samuels’s Bernard Berenson: The Making of a Legend in American Book Review, Vol. 11, No. 4, Sept/Oct 1989
- Mention of WSW’s review of Jay David Bolter’s Writing Space: The Computer, Hypertext, and the History of Writing and George P. Landow’s Hypertext in American Book Review, Vol. 14, No. 2, June/July 1992
- Birthplace mentioned as a nominee for the PEN/Faulkner award in 1983
- Ruud Janssen/John Held Jr interview mentioning WSW
- Matthew Rose: “Some Assembly Required” (about Ray Johnson, includes WSW correspondence)
- Jeanne Marie Kusina: “The Evolution and Revolutions of the Networked Art Aesthetic” (about Ray Johnson, includes WSW correspondence)
- Bill Wilson failing to appear in How to Draw a Bunny
- WSW’s name appearing in Ray Johnson’s work
- Brief mention of WSW’s writing for Artforum in a piece by Joseph Masheck
- Press release for a show at the Padiglione d’Arte Contemporanea; the catalogue includes an essay by WSW on Massimo Bartolini
- A mention in The Economist‘s review of Michael Kimmelman’s The Accidental Masterpiece: on the art of life and vice versa
- Excerpt from Robert L. Schwarz’s Why I Don’t Write Like William S. Wilson
- Mention w/r/t to Ray Johnson’s green shoe box at warholstars.org
- Another mention at warholstars.org, this time including Valerie Solanas
- Several mentions in a John Suiter article on Ray Johnson, originally from the Independent on Sunday
- Excerpt of a review (from Art in America, July/August 1968) of Alison Knowles’s The Big Book (reprinted in full here).
A compilation of postings rescued from the Web, vaguely sorted.
- Ray Johnson
- “NY Correspondance School” (originally 1966, new introduction 2004)
- “Ray Johnson and the Number 13″
- “Reference and Relation” (excerpt from Ray Johnson, 1977)
- “Reference and Relation” (the above, in Hungarian, trans. Fordította Kiss-P´l Klára)
- response to auction of Ray Johnson’s work on eBay
- A discussion about How to Draw a Bunny and objectivity
- Photographs of Ray Johnson by Wm. S. Wilson
- Ray Johnson postcards sent by WSW
- “Art is a Jealous Lover: May Wilson: 1905-1986″
- Duchamp & Leonardo da Vinci
- Duchamp & Baroness Else von Freytag, although mostly about his urinal
- More on the urinal
- Duchamp & mass with particular reference to “In Advance of a Broken Arm”
- Duchamp & “hype”, Warhol, and Wallace Stevens.
- (makes reference to this piece, about Duchamp & Richard Serra)
- Duchamp & chess
- More Duchamp & chess
- Duchamp & chess, no. 3
- Duchamp’s urinal/fountain
- Duchamp’s urinal
- More Duchamp’s urinal
- Duchamp & architecture
- Duchamp, art & space
- Duchamp & signatures
- More on Duchamp & signatures in art
- Duchamp & self portraits
- Duchamp & self portraits, further
- Duchamp & Ferdinand de Saussure
- Henri Pierre Roche
- “Prince of Boredom: The repetitions and passivities of Andy Warhol”
- An essay on The Gates
- Review of Picasso at MOMA, originally from Art Journal, Spring 1997
- “The End of Exemptions for Beauty” (at EBR, currently down, archive here.)
- “Capitalist Construction”, response to Nick Spenser (at EBR, currently down, archive here.)
- Artists & pseudonyms
- on Modernism
- on self-portraits
- on Modernism & Giovanni de Paolo’s Paradise
- The shock (or lack thereof) of the avant-garde
- “Joseph McElroy: fathoming the field” (Electronic Book Review)
- (anonymously)
- http://jdeanicite.typepad.com/i_cite/2005/05/butler_and_weak.html
May Wilson
Marcel Duchamp
Andy Warhol
Christo & Jeanne-Claude
Pablo Picasso
Art & artists (more generally)
Joseph McElroy
Hardt & Negri
Traces
- boklist.blogspot.com, a blog devoted to book & mail art, promises future postings.
- A note on Clive Philpott
- http://www.mail-archive.com/ma-network@yahoogroups.com/msg00004.html
- http://www.mail-archive.com/ma-network@yahoogroups.com/msg00071.html
- http://www.mail-archive.com/ma-network@yahoogroups.com/msg00099.html
- http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0888656122/102-9330598-9715358?v=glance
- http://mailartforums.crosses.net/read.php4?f=3&i=44&t=44&v=t
- http://mailartforums.crosses.net/read.php4?f=3&i=57&t=57
- http://www.marcelduchamp.net/wwwboardarchive/messages/52.html
- http://www.marcelduchamp.net/wwwboardarchive2/messages/383.html
- Duchamp & Francois Le Lionnais
- Duchamp & puns: references
- The Pollack estate & painting authentication
- A piece by Balla at the Centro Duchamp
- The symbolism of hair.
- Referenced in a piece on Eva Hesse (with particular reference to “Eva Hesse: on the threshold of illusions”)
…Just re-read “Art is a Jealous Lover”….
…Even better now = vintage wine.
All best,
-Aviva Green
Hi, I wrote my Master’s thesis on Ray Johnson and met with William S. Wilson several times to discuss his friendship with Ray. He was extremely helpful and wonderful. I have my thesis up on a blog if you want to post the link -http://ditollalove.blogspot.com/2011/01/my-graduate-thesis-just-wanted-it-to-at.html