Queer Networks: Ray Johnson's Correspondence Art
Miriam Kienle, "Queer Networks: Ray Johnson's Correspondence Art"
English | ISBN: 151791163X | 2023 | 296 pages | PDF | 19 MB
English | ISBN: 151791163X | 2023 | 296 pages | PDF | 19 MB
How the queer correspondence art of Ray Johnson disrupted art world conventions and anticipated today’s highly networked culture
Once regarded as “New York’s most famous unknown artist,” Ray Johnson was a highly visible outlier in the art world, his mail art practice reflecting the changing social relations and politics of queer communities in the 1960s. A vital contribution to the growing scholarship on this enigmatic artist, Queer Networks analyzes how Johnson’s practice sought to undermine the dominant mechanisms of the art market and gallery system in favor of unconventional social connections.
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