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Baroni provides an in-depth discussion of mail art with sections dealing with submovements, e.g., assemblings, fluxus, xerox art, etc. and sections dealing with major figures, e.g., Ray Johnson, Robin Crozier, etc. He also mentions the Sackner Archive as a resource for mail art. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Baroni in an essay, "Of Cyberwebs & Snailwebs," states that the death of Ray Johnson was a turning point in the mail art network. Points out that mail art is now collected and appreciated in academic circles at the same time that a contrary form of communication, internet surfing has now begun. However, believes that it will be "collaboration not competition, old and new media helping one another, integrated into a global tactic that should evolve [h]armoniously and lovingly." In addition, Baroni describes the making of his E.O.N. Share Piece, a work held by the Sackner Archive, as well as his experiences on the Internet. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Baroni in an essay, "Of Cyberwebs & Snailwebs," states that the death of Ray Johnson was a turning point in the mail art network. Points out that mail art is now collected and appreciated in academic circles at the same time that a contrary form of communication, internet surfing has now begun. However, believes that it will be "collaboration not competition, old and new media helping one another, integrated into a global tactic that should evolve [h]armoniously and lovingly." In addition, Baroni describes the making of his E.O.N. Share Piece, a work held by the Sackner Archive, as well as his experiences on the Internet. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This issue is devoted to works by Luther Blissett aka Vittore Baroni. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents Dust jacket: Over the last twenty years an increasing number of artists have turned to expressing themselves through postcards. Whether by way of installation, collage, addition to, or alteration of existing postcards, or the production of postcards themselves, many prominent artists employ the medium in some form. Artists' Postcards traces the origin of artists' fascination with postcards from the early 1900s but with a focus on the contemporary, revealing the significant number of artists who have made creative and unusual artworks in postcard form. With 400 images of postcards created by many well-known artists, Artists' Postcards is the first critical guide to the subject. From surrealists to Fluxus and conceptual artists, this book includes an array of historical and contemporary postcards by such artists as George Grosz, Bruce Nauman, Richard Long, David Hockney, Richard Hamilton, Susan Hiller, Joseph Beuys, Ben Vautier, Dieter Roth, Ray Johnson, Gordon Matta-Clark, Gavin...

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The exhibition was curated by Ruggero Maggi. The essays and art works in this book all relate to the chaos and fractal theory in mathematics, art and poetry. As Angelo Bertani writes in his essay, On Apparent Order and Chaos, "What seems to be extremely significant is the artist's need (now extremely widespread) to go out from protected, appointed places and instead, contend directly with existence, with the richess of material, with the spaces of life: in this sense, the creeping crisis of painting, the growing prevalence of installations and video-works are a sign, beyond the current fashion of the will to contend with change, accident and the relative: the other names for chaos. Moreover, in a world where technology prevails, perhaps only the ways of art can inser ta fragment of liberty into the oppressive mechanism of necessity." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Contains article by Vittore Baroni "Aspetti Dellla Poetica Visuale: Baroni, Colonna, Luigetti, Maggi." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Exhibition was curated by Guy Schraenen who also wrote a critical essay in this catalogue. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Various authors contributed chapters on the following subjects: early optical and abstract paintings; AAA editions; verbal-visual reflections; early experiments with computer graphics; punk-new wave photo-documents; creative alterations; strange correspondences; female photo-portraits; stickerman. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The festival was organized by Fernando Aguiar "to present, for the first time in Portugal, recent words by a group of the most significant international avant-garde poets..to provide a widened vision of...poetry with experimental features." Essays on Visual, Concrete and Performance Poetry and Mail Art were contributed by De Melo e Castro, Aguiar, Bory, Heidsieck, Arias-Misson, Ferrando, Hatherly, Higgins, Kac, Olbrich, de Kroon, Miccini, Pimenta & Zink. 177 small mags and documents related to the theme are listed in the final section of this catalogue. The pages of this book have become unbound from the spine. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Vittore Baroni contributes an essay on Yoko Ono, rock music, and Fluxus. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This is an anthology of correspondence and stamp art. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The catalogue of the 1st exhibition is also held by the Sackner Archive. The book includes a section devoted solely to Paper and Bookworks of Robin Ami Silverberg. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The curator, Raphael Tous, was also the collector of the books on display. Ulises Carrion, Guy Schraenen and Jose Luis Mata contributed introductory essays about artist books. It included approximately 1000 books. Several pages have been detached from the glued binding. Several books exhibited in this exhibition are also held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.