What is the Mail Art network?
According to Doris Bell in Contemporary Art Trends 1960-1980, “mail art, began by Marcel Duchamp in 1916 when he sent his ideas by postcard, has grown into a worldwide network…The mailing of ephemeral material to freinds, begun by Ray Johnson in the 1950’s, mushroomed into a kind of dadaist pen-pal club that circumvents the gallery system and so is an alternative to accepted ideas of art.
According to Doris Bell in Contemporary Art Trends 1960-1980, “mail art, began by Marcel Duchamp in 1916 when he sent his ideas by postcard, has grown into a worldwide network…The mailing of ephemeral material to freinds, begun by Ray Johnson in the 1950’s, mushroomed into a kind of dadaist pen-pal club that circumvents the gallery system and so is an alternative to accepted ideas of art.”
