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• The Art Cycle: Mail Art and Fanfiction by chesspiece

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  26 Apr 2023

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  • Mail Art & Fanfiction
  • Sara Dominici
  • Seeta Peña Gangadharan
  • Mark Hill
  • Ray Johnson
  • Reader
  • Art and / on / vs. / after the Internet
  • Fanfiction
  • Current Themes in Media Studies
  • kitsch
  • avant-garde
  • Mail Art
  • could I classify this as rpf
  • no beta we die like my self-respect

  Summary

  What is considered art?
  Is Fanfiction considered kitsch?
  Why does it share characteristics with the Mail Art Movement?

  Or

  An exploration of the connection between Mail Art and Fanfiction and how technology may have changed how an "art" (to be contested) movement develops.

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  English

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