Correspondence art

Scope and Contents Baroni explains this work in Arte Postale! No.74. He relates that he discovered mail art in 1977 and estimates that he exchanged a total of 32,850 mail art pieces. Since he found that he had insufficient space in his house to manage this material, he devised a scheme to turn the archive into a series of modular art pieces, ready to be hung flat or stored as an art book. The 32,850 mailings divided by 24 gives 1368 share-pieces, each arranged on a signed and numbered modular panel that includes 24 mail art letters tied with a red ribbon from the Ethereal Open Network (E.O.N.), a big color sticker with an enlarged networker statement (all different), a photo of the E.O.N. archive files, and one original mail art piece. The envelopes are tied with a ribbon and hot sealed in a plastic transparent folder, then mounted on a ready-to-hang cardboard folder. This finished product differs from Baroni's original description, viz., the sticker is absent and the letters are tied with a blue...

Dates: 1996

Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (processed) / ARTIST BOOKS AND POETRY/BOOK OBJECTS / Vittore Baroni

Ephemera Mail Art / Agius, Juan J. ; Armleder J ; Lucchini P ; Baroni V ; Bennett JM ; Bentivoglio M ; vanBeveren P ; Pignatari D ; Bonvicino R ; DeCampos A ; deCharmoy C ; Clavin H ; Crozier R ; Furnival J ; Gaglione B ; Groh K ; Gruber H ; Gysin B ; Higgins D ; Kocman JH ; Kolar J ; Lora-Totino A ; Cena S ; Moineau JC ; Ockerse T ; Ogaz D ; Perneczky G ; Petasz P ; Rehfeldt R ; DeRook GJ ; Tot E ; Valoch J ; Ben ; Vigo EA ; Wheatley S ; Wolf-Rehfeldt R ; VanBarneveld A ; Below P ; Bleus G ; Cavellini GA ; Diotallevi M ; Banana A ; Held Jjr ; Jacob JP ; DeJonge K ; Lista G ; Lloyd G ; Morgan R ; Padin C ; Plaza J ; Ruch G ; Rypson P ; Stussi M ; Todorovic M ; Welch C ; Zabala H ; Zack D ; Lastname B ; Gaard F ; Putz C., 2000

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Identifier: CC-34100-35781

Dates: 2000

Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Catalogs (unprocessed)

Eredeti Belyes A II Pornografia ciuui sogorotbol / Biro, Jozsef., 1998

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Identifier: CC-30880-32332

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Collage depicts images of nude women overlaid with Hungarian text. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1998

Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Various Formats(unprocessed)

Espacio Creativo 1997 / Gutierrez-Marx G ; Fricker H ; Filliou R ; Friedman K., 1997

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Identifier: CC-42123-44125

Dates: 1997

Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Catalogs (unprocessed)

Essence: International Networking Culture / Held Jjr ; Finlay E ; Welch C ; spence p ; Groh K ; Tipping R ; Cleveland B ; Padin C ; Stake C ; Petasz P ; Cohen R ; Gaglione B ; Morandi E ; Dogfish ; Strada G ; Tisma A ; Dellafiora D ; Kamperelic D ; Kamperelic R ; Collins P ; Bogdanovic N ; Blurr B ; Barbot G ; A1 Waste Paper ; Bates K ; Baroni V ; Maggi R ; Ruch G ; Crozier R ; Segay S., 1995

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Identifier: CC-29547-30915

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The exhibition was organized by Neil Degney around the theme of Shozo Shimamoto's B'book Burning Edict." One hundred participants from 22 countries sent networking material for the exhibition. The works consisted of correspondence art and personal statements. "Essence reveals both a universal personkind and a global divergence of ideas and circumstance." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1995

Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Exhibit Catalogs(unprocessed)

Est-ce Vrai Vous / Corfou, Michel., 1984

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Identifier: CC-18829-19207

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The title of the work appears in negative relief in typewritten x's. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1984

Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Various Formats(unprocessed)

Eternal Lasts Longest / Christie, John., 1984

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Identifier: CC-18646-19018

Dates: 1984

Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Various Formats(unprocessed)

Eternal Network: A Mail Art Anthology / Welch, Chuck, editor ; Friedman K ; Brown J ; Held Jjr ; Phillpot C ; Varney E ; Banana A ; Pittore-Eurofico C ; Cole D ; Milman E ; Bleus G ; Petasz P ; Nikonova R ; Hoffberg J ; Shimamoto S ; Fricker HR ; Kostelanetz R ; Padin C ; Jacob JP ; Sackner MA ; Sackner RK ; Home S ; Baroni V ; Frank J ; Porter B ; Marx GG ; Jackson L ; Gordon C ; Higgins D ; Mittendorf H ; Tisma A ; Cassidy T ; Gahlinger-Beaune R ; Otto Me ; Francois C ; Welch C ; Otto M ; Mitropoulos M ; Okwabi A ; DeSirey J ; Dodge C ; Cunning S ; Filliou R ; Halliday A ; Rosenberg MR ; Marlow W ; Mittendorf H., 1995

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Identifier: CC-00610-624

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This is the first university press pubication to explore the historical roots, aesthetics, and new directions of contemporary mail art in essays by prominent, international mail art networkers from five continents. Includes numerous photographs of mailed artifacts,performance events, congresses, stampsheets, posters, collages, artists' books, visual poetry, computer art, mail art zines, copy art and rubberstamped images. The Sackner Archive is identified as a major resource for Mail Art. The contibutors listed in this record wrote essays or poems and are listed in the Table of Contents. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1995

Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Books (unprocessed)

eternity sontikue, 2010

Item — Box 337: [Barcode: 31858072491198]

Identifier: CC-52001-73103

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McMurtagh resides in San Diego, California; presumably this collaboration took place through the mail. Each page depicts three elements, e.g., a single outline of a large letter by McMurtagh that is embellished with adjacent small calligraphic markings by Bennett and a printed text by one of the poets below. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2010

Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (processed) / BOOKS / SMALL BOOKS

evening phone communication / Saunders, Robert., 1980

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Identifier: CC-58891-65181

Dates: 1980

Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Various Formats(unprocessed)

Evento 77 / Banana A ; Blaine J ; Bruscky P ; Cavellini GA ; Crane M ; Gaglione B ; Groh K ; Miccini E ; Pignotti L ; Sarenco ; Perfetti M ; Spatola A ; Vaccari F ; Carrion U ; Vigo EA ; Hitchcock S ; Niccolai G ; Ori L ; Morocco A., 1978

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Identifier: CC-13859-14164

Dates: 1978

Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Exhibit Catalogs(unprocessed)

Everybody is a star in the mail art zoo / Baroni, Vittore., 2011

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Identifier: CC-55950-9999419

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The recto reads "E.O.N. - unruly mailings since 1977." The verso reads "A rubber stamped collage by Vittore Baroni." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2011

Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Various Formats(unprocessed)