Ray Johnson’s Postal Performance
Ina Blom
- Author(s)
- Ina Blom
- Publication, year
- Oslo ; Kassel ; Sittard : The National Museum of Contemporary Art : Kunsthalle Fridericianum : Museum het Domein, 2003
- Scope
- 120 Pages, illustrated, 23 cm.
- ISBN
- 8291727120
Published on the occasion of the exhibition of the same name at Museum het Domein Sittard 31.05-17.08.2003. Ina Blom: Initially it was Johnson himself sending out small collage-like works to a mailing list, urging people to keep them, to add to them, to change them, to send them to others, to return to sender. In time others joined in this activity, and in the course of the 1960’s and 1970’s the network grew way beyond the immediate reach and touch of Johnson’s own mailing activities. The initial network was named The New York Correspondance School (sic) – a spin or pun on the idea of artistic schools and the concomitant idea of art history as a succession of such schools. But then the quip about the history of Mail Art was itself a pun, of the most serious kind.
- Person as subject
- Ray Johnson
- Location
- Cabinet 4 - 3: Kunstenaars
- Remarks
- Incl. Bibliographical References
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