Copy Art

Copy Art , also Xerox Art or Fax Art, is an art movement, more precisely a subgroup of printmaking .

history

Copy Art originated in the late 1970s to early 1980s with the introduction of the Xerox photocopier . The works of art are produced by repeated copying of the original copy, these can be pictures or objects. You can create your own works by folding, labeling and collaging the copies. Copy art reached its peak in the 1990s with the advent of color copying. Copy art is often used in mail art .

On January 12, 1985 Joseph Beuys took part in the Global Art Fusion project together with Andy Warhol and the Japanese artist Kaii Higashiyama . This was an intercontinental FAX-ART project initiated by the concept artist Ueli Fuchser , in which a fax with drawings by all three artists involved was sent around the world within 32 minutes. This fax was intended to be a sign of peace during the Cold War and is one of the first works in a global context - before the age of the Internet.

There are separate prices for this art form.

Representative

literature

Klaus Urbons: Copy Art - art and design with the photocopier. DuMont, Cologne 1991, ISBN 3-7701-2655-6 .

Web links

The little helper , text and audio film about the history of the photocopy on Vordenker.de, accessed on March 31, 2018
Copy-Art Evidences , a copy-art manifest by Guy Bleus on Mailart.be, accessed March 31, 2018

Individual evidence

^ André Chahil: Vienna 1985: Phenomenon Fax Art. Beuys, Warhol and Higashiyama set an example for the Cold War. . accessed on October 14, 2015.

[1] André Chahil: Vienna 1985: Phenomenon Fax Art. Beuys, Warhol and Higashiyama set an example for the Cold War. . accessed on October 14, 2015.