(The below were mostly rescued from Google, 19 August 2005. Dumped into Drupal 3 September 2005. Dumped into Wordpress 6 January 2005. Somebody needed to do this. Will be further organized. Updates, as they are added, will be posted at http://visel.freeshell.org/wordpress/category/william-wilson/ as they are added to this page.)
(compiled by Dan Visel, email dbvisel AT gmail.com)
Books
- Why I Don’t Write Like Franz Kafka, Amazon
- FC2 page on Why I Don’t Write . . .
- Birthplace: moving into nearness, Amazon
- Black Mountain College Dossiers No. 4: Ray Johnson, Amazon, includes With Ray: the art of friendship
- Ray Johnson: Correspondences, Amazon, includes “Ray Johnson: the one and the other”
- Paris Review 70, includes “Conveyance: ‘The story I would never want Bill Wilson to read’”
Online documents
- Ray Johnson Ray Johnson (PDF, 5.4Mb)
- Ray Johnson John Willenbecher (PDF, 8.3Mb)
- The Big Book (HTML)
- The Big Book (HTML)
This is a PDF of the 1977 Between Books edition referred to here.
A second Between Books edition, from some time later.
Review of The Big Book by Alison Knowles from Art in America, referenced here.
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”)
Towards a bibliography
- 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.
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