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Lists multiples, publications, prints, catalogues and ephemera of artists books. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The name of this periodical is taken from the protagonist in James Joyce's novel, Ulysses. The name of the city from which this assembling originates, Szombathely, is the place where Bloom was born. -- 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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The paintings are brightly colored and have a blurred constructivistic appearance somewhat analogous to artworks of the British artist, Stephen Buckley. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Exhibited in Visualog 2, San Luis Obispo, California. Exhibition was curated by Karl Kempton. -- 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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This document was reprinted from Magazine Humanitarian Fond, Moscow by Geza Perneczky. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The book and the compact discs serve as a database for Perneczky's works. In a work entitled "Very Alternative Art, 1981," Perneczky stamped the word "shit" in eight different languages on toilet tissues. This kind of activity was later used for the more contemporary assembling magazine "Wipe," that is held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.