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Title

The early days of mail art : an historical overview

Author(s)

Friedman, Ken

Abstract

It is difficult to pinpoint the moment when artists' correspondence became correspondence art. By the end of the late 1950s, the three primary sources of correspondence art were taking shape. In North America, the New York Correspondence School was in its germinal stages in the work of artist Ray Johnson and his loose network of friends and colleagues. In Europe, the group known as the Nouveau Realistes were addressing radical new issues in contemporary art. On both continents, and in Japan, artists who were later to work together under the rubric of Fluxus were testing and beginning to stretch the definitions of art. [Introduction]

Publication type

Journal article

Source

CorresponDances, no. 1 (2002), pp. 4-13

Publication year

2002

Keyword(s)

Mail art;  Correspondence art;  Postal art;  History

Copyright

Copyright © 2003 (Please consult author).