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...

Scope and Contents In addition to a major essay by Vittore Baroni that traces the history of artist stamps, several artists wrote about their work or the network of artists stamps. The main section contains photographic reproduction of artists stamps. In addition, the book inludes a chronology of first editions, selected exhibitions from 1974 to 1999 and a bibliography.Baroni proposes the following definition for Artistamp: 1) it was concxeived by the artist, 2) it was produced by or at the instruction of the artist who conceived it, 3) it is a print, preferably on gum paper, 4) it is produced in multiples, most often in several rows and columns on a single sheet which is then, possibly, perforated, 5) it is produced in an edition, preferably signed and numbered, 6) it gives some indication of the imaginary or actual issuing authority, and 7) it is a work of art.Felter mentions that the first artist stamp action was done by Yves Klein who affixed 3500 "blue stamps" to a postcard announcements of his...

Scope and Contents Stephen Perkins, the curator of the exhibition and the editor of the catalogue writes the following introduction, "This catalogue is a documentation for an exhibition of assembling magazines that took place at Subspace, Iowa City, during September, 1996. The call for submissions was circulated among the correspondence art network and the exhibition was comprised of 38 titles from 15 countries, a small number of assembled books, two audio compilations and assorted artists' magazines, books and catalogues. Many contributors submitted statements about their publications and others offered articles and histories on particular aspects of assemblings. Also included in this catalogue are interviews with editors of four of the periodicals in the exhibition. I'd like to thank all the participants who contributed so generously and were instrumental in creating an exhibition that reflects the spirit of collaboration and exchange that is so central to this international networking community....

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The catalogue was written and the exhibition curated by Marvin Sackner. The viewing took place over a five day period at the Annual Meeting of the American Thoracic Society/American Lung Association in Miami Beach. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Luciano Caruso contributed an introductory essay on Artist Books in Italy. The exhibition was divided into editioned books, book-objects, handwritten unique books, books with declarations, books incorporating unusual materials, and books using signs. 176 Italian book artists were represented in this exhibition. -- 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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Bernd Lobach, the editor and curator, contributes an essay, "Postage stamps as a medium for artists' creative messages" that explains the rational and traces the history of the stamp art movement from Robert Watts' fluxus stamps. The book was translated by Peter Kustrermann. Each page depicts a photocopied reproduction of the artist's contribution. -- 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.

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The authors cited above served as regional editors. Includes 2199 citations. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.