Object Details
- Creator
- Schneck, Carol
- Held, John, 1947-
- Subject
- Whitney Museum of American Art
- Place of publication, production, or execution
- No place, unknown, or undetermined
- Physical Description
- 1 mail art : handwritten, ill. ; 16 x 11 cm.
- Summary
- Mail art features a photocopied image of the Whitney Museum of American Art in a trash can. Written on the trash can is: Mail art is not museum art. Text surrounding the central image reads: Stop saving garbage! Mail art is disposable art; shred it! Wrap fish in it! Give it to the gerbil! Don't file it! Use it! Abuse it!
Signed C.A.S.
Published in: Archives of American Art Journal v. 40, no. 3-4, p. 10 - Citation
- Carol Schneck. Carol Schneck mail art to John Held Jr., circa 1988. John Held papers relating to mail art, 1947-2018. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
- Use Note
- Current copyright status is undetermined
- Location Note
- Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution Washington, D.C. 20560
- circa 1988
- Record number
- (DSI-AAA)829
- Type
- Correspondence
- See more items in
- John Held papers relating to mail art, 1947-2018, bulk 1973-2013
- Archives of American Art
- Record ID
- AAADCD_item_829
