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Correspondence art

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 1825 Collections and/or Records:

L'Art Tampon / Held, John Jr. ; Gaglione, Bill ; Bleus G ; Summers R ; Janssen R ; Daligand D ; Agius J., 1995

 Item
Identifier: CC-31004-32463
Scope and Contents

This book is a dairy of Held and Gaglione's (The Fake Picabia Bros.) tour of Europe from May 1-11, 1995. It also includes photocopied examples of the rubberstamp art of Michel Hosszu, Daniel Daligand, Guy Bleus, Rod Sommers and Ruud Janssen. The rubberstamp collaged onto the cover depicts a portrait of Held and Gaglione labeled The Fake Picabia Bros. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1995

L'arte va all'attacco, 1995

 Item — Box Artist Boxed Materials/Oversized: Baroni, Vittore: [Barcode: 31858072491123]
Identifier: CC-28869-30191
Scope and Contents

The background for the collage is a photocopied newspaper article that describes Baroni's mail art activities. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1995

le TGV de VGE vegete / Corfou, Michel., 1981

 Item
Identifier: CC-18648-19020
Scope and Contents

The original work, a collage mounted on corrugated plastic, is also held in the Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1981

le TGV de VGE vegete / Corfou, Michel., 1981

 Item
Identifier: CC-19904-20292
Scope and Contents

This work is egg-shaped. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1981

Lego-15, 2008

 Item — Box 331: [Barcode: 31858072490976]
Identifier: CC-49396-70441
Scope and Contents

Participants were requested to artistically or poetically interpret three pages of a Lego patent (1961) that was provided to them by Beaulieu. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2008

Let's Build Utopia! / Dellafiora, David, editor ; Baroni V ; Bennett JM ; Bibbe AM ; Boog ; Cohen R ; Collins P ; Dammann M ; Dellafiora D ; Fierens L ; Jensen KF ; Leigh M ; Nakamura K ; Olbrich JO ; Sassi F ; Sticker Dude., 2003

 Item
Identifier: CC-42025-44023
Scope and Contents

The purpose of this exhibition was to obtain materials to decorate a wooden building block set. A duplicate copy includes a three page letter from David Dellafiora to Pat Collins -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2003

Let's Go Shopping / Olbrich, Jurgen O., editor ; Arts A ; Padin C ; Lenoir P ; Melnikov W ; Summers R ; Diotallevi M ; DeJonge K ; Jesch B ; Nielsen O ; Cohen R ; Bates K ; Breuer T ; Vigo EA ; Figueiredo C ; Petasz P ; Dencker KP ; Collins P ; Noel A ; Graf H ; Daligand D ; Andolcetti F ; Bogdanovic N ; Pittore-Eurifico C ; Klassen N ; Baroni V ; Andryczuk H ; Levine L ; Jaschke G ; Blaine J ; A1 Waste Paper ; Fabry A ; Bennett JM ; Frangione N ; Strada G ; Collins P ; Dellafiora D ; Olbrich JO., 1997

 Item
Identifier: CC-29717-31093
Scope and Contents

This catalogue is presented in a folded brown paper shopping bag which holds a soft cover book within it. The catalogue contains 23 colored photographs that depict the installation along with critical essays by some of the sponsors, including Jurgen Olbrich. The shopping bags contributed by an international group of mail artists, were exhibited as found and altered objects. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1997

Letter to Carl Loeffler, 1981

 Item — Box 607: [Barcode: 31858073143541]
Identifier: CC-18877-19255
Scope and Contents

In response to Loeffler's request for a critical essay for his "Book on Correspondence Art" Crozier describes what it would be like to receive work from his colleagues in the mail art network. The narrative mentions over 450 names, all listed in alphabetical order. Mentions "Marvin Sackner who is the only non-artist in here or is he now..." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.


Vittore Baroni, Robert Filliou, Bill Gaglione, Edgardo Antonio Vigo, William Xerra, Nicholas Zurbrugg, Lon Spiegelman, Marvin A. Sackner, Takako Saito, Eugenio Miccini, Clemente Padín, and Richard Kostelanetz are some of the names associated with this letter.

Dates: 1981

[Letter to Carla Bertola] / Keith, Bill., 1992

 Item
Identifier: CC-08102-8262
Scope and Contents

This is an experimental poem in the form of a letter. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1992

[Letter to Cornelis Vleeskens] / spence, pete; Dencker KP; thalia; Selenitsch A; Gaze T; Harley; Held Jjr; Hacker K; Groh K., 2004

 Item
Identifier: CC-43449-45512
Scope and Contents

Spence describes meeting several German and American mail artists in Germany. Mentions that the Australian networkers might appear in a book by Klaus Peter Dencker in a German edition and perhaps in an Engish edition published by Thames and Hudson. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2004

[Letter to Jack Furnival wishing him recovery from his illness] (2209) / Houedard, Dom Sylvester., 1975

 Item
Identifier: CC-09838-10032
Scope and Contents

This letter is contained within an envelope collaged onto a page of Furnival's "Liber Amicorum 1964-1984," a book held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1975

[Letter to John Pyros] / A.1. Waste Paper Co. Ltd., 1984

 Item
Identifier: CC-25809-26269
Scope and Contents

Leigh thanks Pyros for sending documentation on Homage To The Mad Diarist exhibition. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1984