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Les Petites Bon-bons (active 1971–75, American)
Mail art to Lucy Lippard, ca. 1971–75
Les Petites Bon-bons was a queer artist collective from Milwaukee that grew out of the international mail art movement and the gay activist scene of the early 1970s. As members relocated to Los Angeles in the early 1970s, the city's glam-rock culture also came to inform their practice. Self-described as a "group of gay life artists who live and play in and around Milwaukee, Hollywood, and the World," they invite us to "imagine a gay universe" with enticing performances and mailers such as this one sent to the critic and curator Lucy Lippard. Early members included Chuckie Betz, Jerry Dreva, J. P., Gary Pietrzak, Mark Slizewski, Dick Varga, and Jim Sullivan, who together explored the relationship between the publicity and performance, image and actualization, art and life.
-- Mary Savig |