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3. A Dog's Idea of the Ideal Country Estate - An Imaginative Map.

Author

Held Jr., John 1889-1958

Subjects
Pictorial map, Satirical, Imaginary
Abstract

Date estimated., Date estimated. John Held Jr. from Salt Lake City was a prominent artist with an unflinching irreverence and caustic wit. Skilled in drawing, engraving, and woodcutting, he made his mark in cartoonish illustration including maps.

Published
1925

5. The Map of Frankie & Johnnie.

Author

Held Jr., John 1889-1958

Subjects
Pictorial map, Satirical, Imaginary
Abstract

Date estimated., Date estimated. John Held Jr. from Salt Lake City was a prominent artist with an unflinching irreverence and caustic wit. Skilled in drawing, engraving, and woodcutting, he made his mark in cartoonish illustration including maps.

Published
1925

7. John Held Jr's Map of New York Night Clubs.

Author

Held Jr., John 1889-1958

Subjects
Pictorial map, Satirical
Abstract

Date estimated., Date estimated. John Held Jr. from Salt Lake City was a prominent artist with an unflinching irreverence and caustic wit. Skilled in drawing, engraving, and woodcutting, he made his mark in cartoonish illustration including maps.

Published
1925

9. MAIL ART ARCHIVES.

Author

Held Jr., John

Subjects
MAIL art, ART archives, ARTISTS' books, ART catalogs, LETTERS
Abstract

The article focuses on mail art archives which are composed of personal correspondence, artists' books and catalogs of mail art shows, among others. The contemporary artists functioned as curators, critics and archivists for themselves for mail art used to be disregarded by mainstream art publishers and institutions. With the increasing innovation in mail art shows, recognition for mail art improved throughout the 1970s. Several notable archivists like Guy Bleus of Belgium and Julia Galantai of Budapest, Hungary are acknowledged.

Published
1991

10. POSTAL STATIC: MAILBOX MAGIC & MADNESS.

Author

Held Jr., John

Subjects
ARTISTS, MAIL art, ART, NEOISM
Abstract

The article describes how mail artists take their actions to the limit and manipulate the postal bureaucracy to explore the boundaries of art and of living within society. It cites the sporadic activities of Duchamp and the Futurists and details how the medium forces artists such Ray Johnson, Robert Watts, Ben Vautier and Pauline Smith to examine society in a unique manner. It also discusses self-historification by Guglielmo Achille Cavellini and neoism as espoused by David Zack and Istvan Kantor.

Published
1990

13. "Sweet Sexteen".

Author

Held Jr., John

Abstract

A section of part VII of the book "The American New Woman Revisited: A Reader, 1894-1930," edited by Martha H. Patterson is presented. It cites that author John Held Jr. focuses more on writing about the social conditions and independent flappers which made him the most famous and highest-paid graphic artist of the 1920s. It also mentions that the cover humor magazine "Life" came from the illustration of Held.

Published
2008

16. Saratoga Springs.

Author

Held, Jr., John

Subjects
Pictorial map
Abstract

Black and white.

Published
1927

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