Alternative Traditions in the Contemporary Arts : Artists' works and correspondence files 1968-1993.

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Alternative Traditions in the Contemporary Arts : Artists' works and correspondence files 1968-1993.

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This collection collocates a number of similar file sequences, including The Crane/Friedman Correspondence Art Collection and portions of the Ken Friedman archive, as well as items from the Buster Cleveland and Bill Gaglione collections which brings together mailart, correspondence, photographs, slides, compact discs, show announcements/posters, writings, and other ephemera by or related to various artists. Entries appear in alphabetical order according to artists' last names and gallery names. Mailart is listed by the last name of the sender. The vast majority of artistic booklets are considered xerox art. This is an Alternative Traditions in Contemporary Art collection.

18 linear ft.

University of Iowa Libraries

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University of Iowa Libraries

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University of Iowa. Libraries. Special Collections Dept.

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Gaglione, Bill

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Friedman, Ken, 1949-....

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Conceptual artist, sculptor, educator, composer, and writer; San Diego, Calif.; b. 1949 in New London, Conn. Educated at San Francisco State College. Lived and worked in San Diego, Calif. Also active in Germany. From the description of Ken Friedman papers, 1969-1978. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 86122741 Writer, musician, conceptual artitst, and the founder of Fluxus West, Friedman is a principal participant in the Fluxus movement which flourished during the l...

Crane, Michael, 1948-

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Cleveland, Buster, -1998

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Buster Cleveland (1943-1998), born James Trenholm in Chicago in 1943, had studied at the Chicago Art Institute and the San Francisco Art Institute after serving in the Coast Guard. He'd become Buster Cleveland by the time he'd arrived in Northern California in the 1970's, where he settled during the first half of that decade, and became involved with the Mendocino Area Dadaists (M.A.D) and the Bay Area Dadaists (B.A.D.), California organizations of artists whose intent was to recreate the epheme...