Mail art, as Dean Brown explains, became a big deal in the late 1960s and the 1970s, a populist movement based on sending small-scale artworks — drawings, paintings, graphic designs and more — through ...
Anna Banana, aka Anna Lee Long “Banana Cards” to Lucy Lippard, ca. 1970s. Lucy R. Lippard papers, Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution. Credit: Lucy R. Lippard papers, Archives of ...
In mail art, the canvas is a postcard or a piece of paper in an envelope. Mail art highlights process and experience in addition to the product itself. It encompasses creation (writing, composition, ...
Participatory, democratic, and unique, Mail Art is exchanged via the postal service, and facilitates creative connections among artists across the world. This art form arose as a way to work outside ...
When the artist Ray Johnson sent a letter to Walter Hopps, former curator of the National Collection of Fine Arts (now the Smithsonian American Art Museum), requesting that he sit for a portrait, the ...
Create an account or log in to save stories. CATHY WURZER: Hey, quick question here-- are you one of the remaining few people who like to send cards or letters the old fashioned way, through the mail?
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