“Pop Art, the most significant "unknown artist," post-war period, "collagist extraordinaire’: Elvis Presley, James Dean, Shirley Temple, Marilyn Monroe; "moticos" panels; "tesserrae work; and Zen Buddhism. In his mailings, he introduced chance by inviting a recipient of his mailings to send the material to another person: active "mail art.” He began to write "Please send to..." Soon called the "New York Correspondance (sic) School," Johnson was attacked in lower Manhattan. Moved. Locust Valley, Long Island, reclusiveness in what he called a "small white farmhouse with a Joseph Cornell attic." While maintaining his profile by communicating via mail art and the telephone... In 1961 he initiated his "Nothings," and continued to stage them throughout his life. carefully wrought suicide on Friday the 13th, 1995 – “
I have enjoyed the work of Ray Johnson for years. My knuckles are itchy.
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