"The Sock of the Month" announcement and sock to Lucy Lippard
Object Details
- Creator
- Friedman, Ken
- Lippard, Lucy R.
- Subject
- Copp, Fletcher
- Place of publication, production, or execution
- No place, unknown, or undetermined
- Physical Description
- 1 mail art : various media ; 28 x 22 cm. (sheet); 40 x 8 cm. (sock)
- Summary
- Fluxus artists Ken Friedman and Fletcher Copp mail art to Lucy Lippard consisting of one sock, painted with blue, green, white, red, yellow, and orange paints, and an accompanying note about Ken and Copp's "sock of the month." The note is handwritten and illustrated with ink drawings of "the foot doctor" and "the rabbit smokes rabbit socks honor guard."
- Citation
- Ken Friedman. "The Sock of the Month" announcement and sock to Lucy Lippard, 1970. Lucy R. Lippard papers, 1930s-2010. 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
- 1970
- Record number
- (DSI-AAA)20013
- Type
- Correspondence
- See more items in
- Lucy R. Lippard papers, 1930s-2010, bulk 1960-1990
- Archives of American Art
- Topic
- Fluxus (Group of artists)
- Record ID
- AAADCD_item_20013
- Metadata Usage (text)
- Usage conditions apply
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