Donna De Salvo
Auteur de Hand-Painted Pop: American Art in Transition, 1955-62
A propos de l'auteur
Œuvres de Donna De Salvo
Lawrence Weiner: AS FAR AS THE EYE CAN SEE 1960-2007 (Whitney Museum of American Art) (2007) 37 exemplaires
Forces of the '50s : Selections from the Albright-Knox Art Gallery (A Succession of Collections) (1996) 6 exemplaires
Face Value : American Portraits 2 exemplaires
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- female
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- Œuvres
- 15
- Aussi par
- 1
- Membres
- 351
- Popularité
- #68,159
- Évaluation
- 4.5
- Critiques
- 2
- ISBN
- 19
- Langues
- 3
Like Rauschenberg, Cy Twombly, Jasper Johns, and later Andy Warhol and Jim Rosenquist, Johnson combined the signs and symbols of contemporary culture with the lessons of abstraction to develop a new lexicon of forms. A pioneer in the use of 'found' images and techniques of mechanical reproduction, Johnson created in 1955 what may have been the first informal happening.
Johnson first created 'mail art' in the fifties. These were part collage, part manifesto, part parody; he often instructed recipients to 'add to', 'return to', or 'send to', spawning an interactive art form, a continuous happening, that pre-figured electronic mail. Johnson was the nerve center of this pre-digital netscape that spread around the nation and, eventually, the world, which continues to flourish today.
By the eighties, Johnson was a legend in the artistic community. Ray Johnson: correspondences, offers the first opportunity for in-depth examination of the work of an artist who reflected and dissected many of the aesthetic, cultural, and theoretical preoccupations of the last forty years; a figure whose impact and influence will finally be made known.… (plus d'informations)