One of my most favored and esteemed artists is Joseph Cornell, who would certainly
have qualified as a collector of ephemera:
http://metalab.unc.edu/wm/paint/auth/cornell/
If you are looking for artists contemporary among us, here are some interesting ones,
and a collaborative work that bears investigation:
http://www.floatingmuseum.com/artists.htm
Oh, and then there's me :) I do assemblage, among other things and the ephemera is
threatening to take over my studio and shove me right out the door.
Best,
PK
"R.Gancie/C.Parcelli" wrote:
> > partly, i gues, i mean artists like Maciunas, for whom keeping lists >is part of
>their artistic practice, and partly i mean people for whom >it's a bit more extreme
>than that: exhaustive ephemera collectors, that >kinda thing.
>
> I've heard that the filmmaker Harry Smith had an exhaustive collection
> of cut-out images that he kept stored in his NY apartment in file
> cabinets. It's occurred to me that some people on this list may have
> known him personally. I'd be interested in any reminiscences that
> anyone is willing to share about him and/or his method of working.
>
> --Rosalie
