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Ray Johnson's Correspondence

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Ray Johnson

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Johnson was interested with networks and communication.  His work took on different meanings when in the setting of a museum, a post office, or a friend or stranger’s home.  The process required in mail art gave his work a new dimension, and questioned the role of the artist, the viewer, and the institution.  Mail art for Johnson was a logical way to blend life and art, the individual work and the world as a whole.

"I don’t just slap things into envelopes. 

Everything I make is made for the person I am writing to."

 

Selected letters


To State of Being
To Harley
To Harley
     
To State of Being
To John Evans
To John Evans


Last updated:
June 08, 2010

 

  
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