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Fluxus

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 6 Collections and/or Records:

A Collage in Which Life = Death = Art / Kimmelman, Michael; Johnson R; Beuys J; Cage J; Rauschenberg R; Phillpot C., 2002

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Identifier: CC-39483-41439
Scope and Contents

This is a review of the circumstances of Johnson's death by drowning. His work was exhibited in Feigen Contemporary and a film about him, "How to Draw a Bunny," shown at the Film Forum. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2002

Fluxus / Gaglione, Bill; Held, John Jr.; Johnson R., 1997

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Identifier: CC-28712-30016
Scope and Contents

A typed, photocopied caption at the bottom of the sheet reads, You have been dropped from the New York Correspondence School - Ray Johnson. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1997

Gibes at the Experts from an Enigmatic Chatterbox / Cotter, Holland; Johnson R., 1999

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Identifier: CC-31784-33300
Scope and Contents

This review of "Ray Johnson:Correspondences" at the Whitney Mueum of American Art describes Johnson's collages as masterworks. "The visual elements they incorporated were equally diverse: pieces of photographs, magazine clips, commercial logos, abstract shapes, cartoons and above all, words: jokes, puns, anagrams, song lyrics, poetry, nonsense syllables, exclamations, dedications and lists of names of artists and actors, social luminaries and friends. The results amount to a consummate insider, a figure who was at once everywhere and nowhere in the art world, and who used his work to spin a personal myth." The Sackner Archive contains a collage of Johnson's. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1999

Transmit: Fluxus, Mail Art, Net Works / Silverman G ; Silverman L ; Hendricks J ; Maciunas G ; Johnson R ; Padin C ; Janssen R ; Brecht G., 1999

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Identifier: CC-32430-34004
Scope and Contents

Transmit: Fluxus - Mail Art - Net.works traces the development of collaborative networks as communication systems between artists from the early Fluxus and Mail Art movements to contemporary Web Art while exploring their artistic legacy. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1999