Scope and Contents This object is an announcement card for the publication of "An Anthology." According to 6 Decades Books: LaMonte Young devised this extraordinary pop-up multiple as a prepublication announcement for An Anthology of Chance Operations, the book he co-published with Jackson MacLow in 1963. An Anthology of Chance Operations was designed by George Maciunas and includes work by Young and Mac Low, along with George Brecht, John Cage, Terry Riley, Dick Higgins, Yoko Ono, Henry Flynt, Walter De Maria, Nam June Paik, Dieter Rot, Robert Morris, Al Hansen, and others. The publication is a compendium of the era's dada-inflected avant-garde represented by a collection of works in which traditional boundaries between music, writing, art, and theater were discarded in favor of an aesthetics based ideas, actions, and ephemerality. The book is widely regarded as the high point publication of the Fluxus movement and a founding document of contemporary art. Young created a few dozen copies of the...

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For this book, each artist was asked to contribute one page of autobiography and one page about anything beginning with the same initial as his surname. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Mike Dyar writes on his note that "this was a collaboration between Ray Johnson & myself. He sent me this as a drawing & asked me to sculpt & cast it in plaster." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This work consists of the responses to a questionaire on Mail Art Archives sent to the recipients by Ferranto. Some of the collectors also indicated that their collections were for sale. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents The writings on the dried onion leaves consist of brief phrases, such as 'magic cloth.' The broadside documents the correspondence between Ray Johnson and Coco Gordon on onion skins beginning in 1981. It appears that the handwriting on the onion skins was done by Ray Johnson.Internet: Coco Gordon, born in Genova, lives and works from her NYC loft and her home in the red rocks of Lyons, Colorado. She emigrated to the United States in 1939. An Intermedia artist/ poet/ performer/ papermaker/ publisher of W Space artist book editions, she is also known as SuperSkyWoman. For the 2001 Venice Biennale Coco contributed her Superskywoman dialog "Forget Coming' to the Markers Project on Via Garibaldi and contributed her performance poem "Homage to the butterfly' to the Bunker Poetry Project at the Artiglierie of the Arsenale.13 SuperSkyWoman dialog posters showed at De Garage, Belgium May3-June 23 2002, curated by Luc Fierens. She has participated in the London and the Istanbul Biennales....

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The writings on the dried onion leaves consist of brief phrases, such as 'dildos & other games.' The broadside documents the correspondence between Ray Johnson and Coco Gordon on onion skins beginning in 1981. It appears that the handwriting on the onion skins was done by Ray Johnson. The documentation as to the edition size and number of this copy appears to have been lost. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This duplicates the correspondence for the exhibition archive and includes letters and cards by Arakawa, George Brecht, Tenny Duchamp, Ovind Fahlstrom, Ray Johnson, Allan Kaprow, Alison Knowles, Ron Kitaj, Gianni Simonetti, and Wolf Vostell. There are drawings by Baruchello, Mary Bauermeister, George Brecht, and James Nutt, and a collage by Granni Simonetti that deals with plans for assembling the found objects to be placed in a plexiglas box by museum personnel. The box is also accompanied by the catalogue of the exhibition. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.