Nut Art

English Alternative forms en nut art Etymology Uncertain but generally credited to artist Roy De Forest in a 1972 Nut Art exhibition catalogue writing.Garth Johnson 2017 Lecture: Fluxing Funk: Nut Art NCECA Journal 38 128–131 0739-1544 Noun - Nut Art A minor art movement during the late 1960s and early 1970s that was concerned with self-identification, sometimes involving the creation of a new persona, through fantastical or mythical elements. en https://artpool.hu/MailArt/chrono/1973/Authentic.html David Zack Frank Jewett Mather 1973 An Authentik and Historikal Discourse on the Phenomenon of Mail Art Art in America 61 51 Nut Art in fact was a major art-historical invention, as it's the first art movement to consist of fifteen people all working in different styles. en Michael Crane; Mary Stofflet 1984 Correspondence Art: Source Book for the Network of International Postal Art Activity Contemporary Arts Press 9780931818028 112 Closely allied to Nut Art was the Chicago Imagist school of painting, also known as the Hairy Who. en Garth Johnson 2017 Lecture: Fluxing Funk: Nut Art NCECA Journal 38 131 Although the movement didn't become a household word like Pop or Dada, Nut Art's penchant for blurring the lines between correspondence art, conceptual art, painting, and sculpture has made it a touchstone for a new generation of artists. References en Art