"The Sock of the Month" announcement and sock to Lucy Lippard

There are restrictions for re-using this image. For more information, visit the Smithsonian's Terms of Use page .

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more.

View manifest View in Mirador Viewer

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

Date

1970

Record number

(DSI-AAA)20013

Type

Correspondence

See more items in

Lucy R. Lippard papers, 1930s-2010, bulk 1960-1990

Data Source

Archives of American Art

Topic

Fluxus (Group of artists)

Metadata Usage

Usage conditions apply

Record ID

AAADCD_item_20013