all things flow

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dc.contributor.advisorFanger, Claireen_US
dc.creatorYao, Yixiaoen_US
dc.date.accessioned2025-05-30T20:08:24Zen_US
dc.date.available2025-05-30T20:08:24Zen_US
dc.date.created2025-05en_US
dc.date.issued2025-04-23en_US
dc.date.submittedMay 2025en_US
dc.date.updated2025-05-30T20:08:24Zen_US
dc.description.abstractall things flow is a compilation of texts exploring artistic practices centered in the interplay of fragmentation, circulation, and ephemerality. Active from the 1940s through the 1990s, the artist Ray Johnson described his work as miniatures cataloguing free-form fragmentations. His practice of mail art, the making of collages, relief surfaces, and correspondence objects demonstrates how fragments can be constantly rearranged and reassembled. Engaging with Daoist philosophy, his work reflects the fluid nature of social relationships. Through experimental autoethnographical writings about Johnson, this thesis critiques the limitations of institutional categorization and the ways modern and contemporary art are defined, created, sold, and understood through International Art English. Johnson’s work resists classification within completed/enclosed systems. By engaging with his methods of creating counterparts and paradoxes, this project invites readers to move away from normative modes of speculation, and explore alternative interpretations of existing categories in art historical and archival practices.en_US
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdfen_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1911/118466en_US
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.subjectexperimental autoethnographical writingsen_US
dc.subjectart historical and archival practicesen_US
dc.subjectDaoist philosophyen_US
dc.subjectRay Johnsonen_US
dc.subjectminiaturesen_US
dc.subjectfragmentationsen_US
dc.subjectcorrespondenceen_US
dc.subjectmail arten_US
dc.subjectphotographyen_US
dc.subjectcollageen_US
dc.subjectinterdisciplinary artsen_US
dc.subjectart in circulationsen_US
dc.subjecttransnational studiesen_US
dc.subjectvisual critical studiesen_US
dc.subjectcultural studiesen_US
dc.titleall things flowen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US
dc.type.materialTexten_US
thesis.degree.departmentReligious Studiesen_US
thesis.degree.disciplineReligionen_US
thesis.degree.grantorRice Universityen_US
thesis.degree.levelMastersen_US
thesis.degree.nameMaster of Artsen_US
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