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Buster Cleveland (1943–1998, American)
Flyer for Art for Um series to John Evans, 1993
Buster Cleveland was best known for his neo-Dadaist collages and work in the Mendocino Area Dadaists (M.A.D.) and Bay Area Dadaists (B.A.D.) movements. After moving from Chicago to New York in the late 1970s, he began hocking postage-stamp-sized collages on the street in SoHo, thus participating in mail art was a natural progression. His best-known works are from his Art for Um series, collages of Artforum covers that satirize the elitism and commercialism of the magazine. He laser printed the collages, reducing them to five square inches and selling them by mail-order subscription.
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