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Perneczky provides essays on definitions and history of Assemblings as well as in depth analysis of individual publications in this heavily illustrated book. He adds personal vignettes on collecting several of these publications. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This exhibition featured sculptures from found objects, paintings, rubberstamped works and stamp art. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This second volume of the catalogue mainly documents the Congress held in conjunction with the exhibition. It includes a congress summary by Kornelia Roder. There are also essays by Geza Perneczky, Karol Sauerland, Piotr Rypson, Guy Schraenen, Karla Sachse, Joachim Blank, and Balint Szombathy on the political-cultural-artistic implications of Mail Art. The catalogue contains a transcription of a panel discussion on Mail Art. The participants included Ruth Wolf-Rehfeldt, Klaus Groh, Leonard Frank Duch, Joseph H. Huber, Thomas Schulz, Birger Jesch, Hans-Ruedi Fricker, and Uwe Warnke. The catalogue reprints reviews of the exhibition. Four pages of calligraphic concrete poetry, entitled "Mnemonic Scores" by Valeri Scherstjanoi begin this book. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents This exhibition, curated by Kornelia Roder, provides an extensive review of Mail Art examples and exhibitions in Eastern Europe. It is well documented with respect to visuals and text. Several practitioners have contributed essays. Among them, Guy Schraenen's "Addressee Unknown" is particularly relevant to the field. He writes, "Although Mail Art was influenced by visual and concrete poetry, a language of pictures internationally understood, it was English that became the language of Mail Art right from the start. This is the reason why you speak of Mail Art rather than of Art Postal, Arte Postale, Arte Correo or Postkunst...Postal items to unknown addressees have created a circle of related minds. Such ties are the grandeur of a worldwide movement of communication. But Mail Art is only a facet of it. Mail Art used to be a fashion, and as a fashion it will again disappear. It has, however enriched the international art scene by numerous works which otherwise would have been...

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About one half of this book consists of essays by several contributors that deal with various aspects of Kassak's work and life. The second half depicts reproductions of Kassak's work with Hungarian and English titles. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Presented and created by Bill Gaglione and edited by Ted Purves who state that art scholars consider Kocman the neo-father of contemporary stamp art aka rubberstamping art. Onthe inside back cover, Kocman has handwritten [facsimile] a paraphrasse by Wittgenstrin "The limit of my languafe is the limit of my world" as "The limit of my love is the limit of my world." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.