Charles Ray

Figure Ground

Kelly Baum, Brinda Kumar, Charles Ray , Hal Foster

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Metropolitan Museum of Art
22 February 2022

The Arts: General & Reference

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.

By: Kelly Baum, Brinda Kumar
Contributions by: Charles Ray, Hal Foster
Imprint: Metropolitan Museum of Art
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 254mm, Width: 229mm, Spine: 12mm
Weight: 566g
ISBN: 9781588397423
ISBN 10: 1588397424
Pages: 112
Publication Date: 22 February 2022
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

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.

Reviews for Charles Ray: Figure Ground

The exhibition catalog contains useful essays by the show's two main curators, Kelly Baum and Brinda Kumar, and a lively conversation between Ray and the critic Hal Foster that shows off the artist's intelligence and sense of humor. -David Salle, New York Review of Books