Mail Art 1997

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Mail Art 1997

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1 box

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The Women's Art Library (MAKE)

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Collins, Patricia

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In 1997 Patricia Collins from Middlesex, United Kingdom set out to investigate women's involvement in mail art networking. She sent out a circular letter which asked why men seem to be more involved in project documentation than women, why the 'leading lights' were male and why she only knew of three British males writing their doctoral thesis on mail art and no females. From the guide to the Mail Art, 1997, (The Women's Art Library (MAKE)) ...

New York Correspondence School.

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Stamp Art Gallery

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Johnson, Ray

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Biography "The most famous unknown artist in New York" - this is how Grace Glueck, a New York Times reporter, characterized Ray Johnson after his collage exhibition in 1965. He was called the father of mail art, one of the first performance artists, a precursor Pop Art, and he is rarely absent from studies of fluxus. His connections extend beyond even these movements through his global postal performance, the New York Correspondence School. ...