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"Utilizing the postal service as his primary means of producing and circulating art, Ray Johnson cultivated an international community of friends and collaborators through which he advanced his idiosyncratic body of work. Highlighting his alternative modes of community building and playful antagonism toward art world protocols, Miriam Kienle demonstrates how Ray Johnson's correspondence art offers new ways of envisioning togetherness in today's highly commodified and deeply networked world"--
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Contents
Introduction: Please Send To
1. Singular and Plural: Postal Network as Heterotopia
2. Unsettling Networks: The Queer Connectivity of the New York Correspondence School
3. Counterpublicity: The “Exploits and Escapades” of the Robin Gallery
4. Facing Others: Portrait of a Curator as a Network
Conclusion: Ray Johnson’s Dead Letter
Acknowledgments
Notes
Index
About the author
Miriam Kienle is associate professor of art history in the School of Art and Visual Studies at the University of Kentucky.
