Untitled [The New York Correspondence Academy]

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Little known outside the art world but highly respected in it, Johnson is the most famous figure of the post war international mail art movement. That movement explored not only the nature of postal service, one of the major institutions of the industrial age, but also "the space between art and life," as Rauschenberg called it. Johnson's mail art pieces often followed in the tradition of Duchamp in using readymades and provocatively questioning the very definition and essence of art.

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American
Dadaism
Sculpture
Cardboard
Drawings