Leben und Arbeit/biography
Lon Spiegelman was born in 1941. He was an American Mail Artist and networker who initiated the concept called “Money & mail-art don’t mix” stating that Mail Art is non-commercial art and therefore can’t be bought or sold. He also coined the term “N-tity” with American Mail Artist Carlo Pittore, a term that [...]
Archive for November, 2007
Lon Spiegelman
Posted in Mail Art, Mail Artist, USA, tagged Lon Spiegelman on 26. November 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Anna Banana
Posted in Canada, Mail Art, Mail Artist, tagged Anna Banana on 26. November 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Leben und Arbeit/biography
Anna Banana was born in Victoria, British Columbia, USA, in 1940. She got a teaching certificate at University of British Columbia, then acquired her name from students at Vancouver’s New School in 1968 after falling into a box of bananas at a party on a mountain in Big Sur. From 1970 on she [...]
György Galántai
Posted in Hungary, Mail Art, Mail Artist, tagged György Galántai on 3. November 2007 | 1 Comment »
Leben und Arbeit/biography
György Galántai was born in Bikacs, Hungary in 1941. From 1963 to 1967 he studied painting at the College of Fine Arts in Budapest. From 1970 on he organised semi-legal exhibitions, actions and happenings in the chapel of Balatonboglár, which he had rented from the Catholic Church until it was closed down by the [...]
Jarosław Kozłowski
Posted in Mail Art, Mail Artist, Poland, tagged Jarosław Kozłowski on 3. November 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Leben und Arbeit/biography
Kozłowski was born in in Śrem, Poland in 1945. He is professor of arts at the Academy of Fine Arts in Poznań and one of the most well known conceptional artists in Poland.
From 1963 to 1968 he studied painting at the State College of Fine Arts in Poznań. In 1972 he – together with Andrzej [...]
Dick Higgins
Posted in Mail Art, Mail Artist, USA, tagged Dick Higgins on 3. November 2007 | 3 Comments »
Leben und Arbeit/biography
Dick Higgins was born as Richard Carter Higgins in 1938 in Cambridge, England. From 1958 to 1959 he studied – like many other Fluxus artists – in John Cage’s composition class at the New School for Social Research in New York. In 1960 he married artist Alison Knowles, they were both among the [...]
