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* [http://www.lomholtmailartarchive.dk/ Lomholt Mail Art Archive], works from 1970-85, Odder/Denmark. | * [http://www.lomholtmailartarchive.dk/ Lomholt Mail Art Archive], works from 1970-85, Odder/Denmark. | ||
* [http://mailartists.wordpress.com Mail Artists Index], biographies, works and links of representative mail artists, ed. Lutz Wohlrab. | * [http://mailartists.wordpress.com Mail Artists Index], biographies, works and links of representative mail artists, ed. Lutz Wohlrab. | ||
− | * [http://mailartarchive.com/ Mogens Otto Nielsen mail art archive], Aalborg. | + | * [https://web.archive.org/web/20160405111735/http://mailartarchive.com/ Mogens Otto Nielsen mail art archive], Aalborg (site no longer live). |
* [http://digital.lib.buffalo.edu/collection/LIB-PC001/ Mail art collection at U Buffalo] | * [http://digital.lib.buffalo.edu/collection/LIB-PC001/ Mail art collection at U Buffalo] | ||
* [http://actlab.us/emma Electronic Museum of Mail Art (EMMA)], maintained by Chuck Welch. | * [http://actlab.us/emma Electronic Museum of Mail Art (EMMA)], maintained by Chuck Welch. | ||
* [http://post.at.moma.org/themes/10-poema-colectivo-revolucion-and-the-international-mail-art-network Poema Colectivo: Revolución and the International Mail Art Network], Mauricio Marcin in collaboration with Zanna Gilbert | * [http://post.at.moma.org/themes/10-poema-colectivo-revolucion-and-the-international-mail-art-network Poema Colectivo: Revolución and the International Mail Art Network], Mauricio Marcin in collaboration with Zanna Gilbert | ||
* [http://www.rayjohnsonestate.com/art/mail-art-and-ephemera/ Ray Johnson Estate: Mail Art and Ephemera] | * [http://www.rayjohnsonestate.com/art/mail-art-and-ephemera/ Ray Johnson Estate: Mail Art and Ephemera] | ||
+ | * [https://libraries.oberlin.edu/collections/special-collections/mail-art Oberlin College Mail Art Collection] | ||
==Publications== | ==Publications== | ||
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** Ken Friedman, [http://images.rayjohnsonestate.com/www_rayjohnsonestate_com/flue.pdf "Mail Art History: The Fluxus Factor"], pp 18-24. | ** Ken Friedman, [http://images.rayjohnsonestate.com/www_rayjohnsonestate_com/flue.pdf "Mail Art History: The Fluxus Factor"], pp 18-24. | ||
* ''Correspondence Art: Source Book for the Network of International Postal Activity'', eds. Michael Crane and Mary Stofflet, San Francisco: Contemporary Arts Press, 1984. [http://post.at.moma.org/sources/5/publications/85] | * ''Correspondence Art: Source Book for the Network of International Postal Activity'', eds. Michael Crane and Mary Stofflet, San Francisco: Contemporary Arts Press, 1984. [http://post.at.moma.org/sources/5/publications/85] | ||
− | * | + | * Stefan Szczelkun (ed.), ''[https://archive.org/details/POSTART1Booklet Post Art 1]'', London: Routine Art Co, 1985, [18] pp, [[Media:Post Art 1 1985.pdf|PDF]]. Booklet of mail art documentation. |
− | * Stewart Home, [ | + | * Stewart Home, [https://www.stewarthomesociety.org/ass/ma.htm "Mail Art"], [https://www.stewarthomesociety.org/neoism/preneoass.htm "Beyond Mail Art"], chs 13-14 in Home, ''[http://monoskop.org/log/?p=10589 The Assault on Culture: Utopian Currents from Lettrisme to Class War]'', London: Aporia Press and Unpopular Books, 1988, 115 pp; 2nd ed., AK Press, 1991, 128 pp. {{en}} |
− | + | ** [[Stewart Home#Home1988|translations]] | |
* ''[[Media:Hand_of_the_Spirit_Documents_of_the_Seventies_from_the_Morris-Trasov_Archive.pdf|Hand of the Spirit: Documents of the Seventies from the Morris/Trasov Archive]]'', ed. Scott Watson, Vancouver: UBC Fine Arts Gallery, 1992, 47 pp. Catalogue. [http://vincenttrasov.ca/index.cfm?pg=archive] [http://www.specificobject.com/objects/info.cfm?object_id=9097] | * ''[[Media:Hand_of_the_Spirit_Documents_of_the_Seventies_from_the_Morris-Trasov_Archive.pdf|Hand of the Spirit: Documents of the Seventies from the Morris/Trasov Archive]]'', ed. Scott Watson, Vancouver: UBC Fine Arts Gallery, 1992, 47 pp. Catalogue. [http://vincenttrasov.ca/index.cfm?pg=archive] [http://www.specificobject.com/objects/info.cfm?object_id=9097] | ||
* Géza Perneczky, ''The Magazine Network: The Trends of Alternative Art in the Light of Their Periodicals 1968-1988'', Cologne: Soft Geometry, 1993, 285 pp. | * Géza Perneczky, ''The Magazine Network: The Trends of Alternative Art in the Light of Their Periodicals 1968-1988'', Cologne: Soft Geometry, 1993, 285 pp. | ||
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* ''Außer Kontrolle! Farbgrafik und Mail Art in der DDR / Out of Control! Colour Prints and Mail Art in the GDR'', eds. Paul Kaiser, Christina May and Kornelia Röder, Cologne: Walther Koenig, and Schwerin: Staatliches Museum, 2015, 256 pp. Catalogue. [http://www.buchhandlung-walther-koenig.de/koenig2/index.php?mode=details&showcase=1&art=1535786] [http://www.cornerhousepublications.org/publications/out-of-control-colour-prints-and-mail-art-in-the-gdr/] {{de}}/{{en}} | * ''Außer Kontrolle! Farbgrafik und Mail Art in der DDR / Out of Control! Colour Prints and Mail Art in the GDR'', eds. Paul Kaiser, Christina May and Kornelia Röder, Cologne: Walther Koenig, and Schwerin: Staatliches Museum, 2015, 256 pp. Catalogue. [http://www.buchhandlung-walther-koenig.de/koenig2/index.php?mode=details&showcase=1&art=1535786] [http://www.cornerhousepublications.org/publications/out-of-control-colour-prints-and-mail-art-in-the-gdr/] {{de}}/{{en}} | ||
* ''Keep Art Flat! Mail Art and the Political 1970s'', Copenhagen: Kunsthal Charlottenborg, 2016. Catalogue for [http://kunsthalcharlottenborg.dk/en/udstillinger/keep-art-flat-2/ exh. held] 15 Sep-6 Nov 2016; selection of ~250 works from the Lomholt Mail Art Archive. [https://www.academia.edu/31442067 Introduction], [https://www.academia.edu/28914442 Welch's essay], [http://lomholtmailartarchive.dk/keep-art-flat other essays]. [http://lomholtmailartarchive.dk/keep-art-flat] | * ''Keep Art Flat! Mail Art and the Political 1970s'', Copenhagen: Kunsthal Charlottenborg, 2016. Catalogue for [http://kunsthalcharlottenborg.dk/en/udstillinger/keep-art-flat-2/ exh. held] 15 Sep-6 Nov 2016; selection of ~250 works from the Lomholt Mail Art Archive. [https://www.academia.edu/31442067 Introduction], [https://www.academia.edu/28914442 Welch's essay], [http://lomholtmailartarchive.dk/keep-art-flat other essays]. [http://lomholtmailartarchive.dk/keep-art-flat] | ||
− | * Stephen Moonie, [https://sci-hub. | + | * Stephen Moonie, [https://sci-hub.se/10.1086/685921 "A Poet of “Non-''ressentiment''”? Lawrence Alloway, Ray Johnson, and the Art World as a Network"], ''Getty Research Journal'' 8, 2016, pp 161-176. |
* ''Revista ARTA'' 32: "Mail Art", ed. Dan Mihălțianu, Bucharest: Revista Arta, 2018. [http://revistaarta.ro/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/arta-32-interior-web.pdf Excerpt]. [https://revistaarta.ro/en/shop/] {{ro}}/{{en}} | * ''Revista ARTA'' 32: "Mail Art", ed. Dan Mihălțianu, Bucharest: Revista Arta, 2018. [http://revistaarta.ro/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/arta-32-interior-web.pdf Excerpt]. [https://revistaarta.ro/en/shop/] {{ro}}/{{en}} | ||
+ | * Colby Chamberlain, [[Media:Chamberlain Colby 2018 International Indeterminacy George Maciunas and the Mail.pdf|"International Indeterminacy: George Maciunas and the Mail"]], ''ARTMargins'' 7:3, Oct 2018, pp 57-85. [https://doi.org/10.1162/artm_a_00218] | ||
* Mark Bloch, [http://www.panmodern.com/one/history.html "A Brief History of Postal Art"], n.d. | * Mark Bloch, [http://www.panmodern.com/one/history.html "A Brief History of Postal Art"], n.d. |
Revision as of 18:40, 14 April 2021
Also postal art, correspondence art.
Contents
Pages
- Valdis Āboliņš
- Art and Project
- Artpool
- Anna Banana
- Paulo Bruscky
- Cactus Network
- Ulises Carrión
- Tony Credland
- Ephemera
- Robert Filliou
- Ken Friedman
- Klaus Groh
- Judith Hoffberg
- Pete Horobin
- Ray Johnson
- Istvan Kantor
- Milan Knížák
- J.H. Kocman
- Marek Konieczny
- Brigitta Milde
- Omaha Flow Systems
- Ewa Partum
- Géza Perneczky
- Paweł Petasz
- Ivan Preissler
- Karla Sachse
- Semina
- Shōzō Shimamoto
- TENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE
- Endre Tót
- Jiří Valoch
- Edgardo Antonio Vigo
- Lutz Wohlrab
- Ruth Wolf-Rehfeldt
- David Zack
Magazines and Journals
- File, ed. General Idea (AA Bronson, Felix Partz & Jorge Zontal), Toronto, 1972-89.
- Vile, eds. Anna Banana and Bill Gaglione, San Francisco, 1974-83. [1]
- Ephemera: a monthly journal of mail and ephemeral works, 12 issues, eds. Ulises Carrión, Aart van Barneveld and Salvador Flores, Amsterdam: Other Books and So, 1977-78.
- Commonpress, c48 numbers, eds. Pawel Petasz et al., 1977-90. Issues: #1, #3 #5, #6, #8, and many others available via Lomholt Mail Art Archive.
- Umbrella, ed. Judith Hoffberg, 1978-2008. The journal covered news and reviews of artists' books, mail art and contemporary art and photography tradebooks.
- Umbrella: The Anthology, 1978-1998, ed. Judith A. Hoffberg, Santa Monica, CA: Umbrella Editions, 1999, 164 pp.
- PhotoStatic; Retrofuturism; Psrf magazines, 1983-1998.
- Yawn: Art Strike 1990-1993, 45 numbers, 1989-1992.
- Gwen Allen, "The Magazine as Mirror: FILE, 1979-1994", in Artists’ Magazines: An Alternative Space for Art, MIT Press, 2011, pp 147-173.
Archives, Resources
- Artpool, incl. Mail Art Chronology
- Lomholt Mail Art Archive, works from 1970-85, Odder/Denmark.
- Mail Artists Index, biographies, works and links of representative mail artists, ed. Lutz Wohlrab.
- Mogens Otto Nielsen mail art archive, Aalborg (site no longer live).
- Mail art collection at U Buffalo
- Electronic Museum of Mail Art (EMMA), maintained by Chuck Welch.
- Poema Colectivo: Revolución and the International Mail Art Network, Mauricio Marcin in collaboration with Zanna Gilbert
- Ray Johnson Estate: Mail Art and Ephemera
- Oberlin College Mail Art Collection
Publications
- Jean-Marc Poinsot, Mail Art. Communication à distance, Paris: Cedic, 1971. (French)
- Thomas Albright, "New Art School: Correspondence", Rolling Stone 106, 13 Apr 1972, p 32.
- Thomas Albright, "Correspondence Art", Rolling Stone 107, 27 Apr 1972, p 28.
- David Zack, "An Authentik and Historikal Discourse on the Phenomenon of Mail Art", Art in America, Jan-Feb 1973. [2]
- Ken Friedman, "Flowing in Omaha", Art and Artists, London, Aug 1973.
- Hervé Fischer, Art et communication marginale: tampons d'artistes / Art and Marginal Communication: Rubber Art, Stamp Activity / Kunst und Randkommunikation: Kunstlers Stempelmarken, Paris: Balland, 1974, 243 pp. (French)/(English)/(German)
- Kunst per post. Mail Art, ed. G.J. de Rook, Utrecht, 1976, [17] pp. (Dutch)/(English)
- Edward M. Plunkett, Lawrence Alloway, John Russell, Suzi Gablik, William S. Wilson, Henry Martin, Robert Pincus-Witten, Karen Shaw, Robert Rosenblum, Lucy R. Lippard, Tommy Mew, Toby R. Spiselman, "Send Letters, Postcards, Drawings, and Objects ...", Art Journal 36 (Spring 1977), pp 233-241.
- Mantua Mail 1978, eds. Romano Peli and Michaela Varsari, Mantova, Italy: Assessorato Cultura Comune di Mantova, 1978, 198 pp. Catalogue. Essays by Ken Friedman, Mike Crane, Hervé Fischer, et al.
- Giovanni Lista, L'Art postal futuriste, Paris: Jean-Michel Place, 1979. (French)
- Ulises Carrión, Second Thoughts, Amsterdam: VOID, 1980, 72 pp.
- Stempelkunst in Nederland, ed. Aart van Barneveld, intro. Ulises Carrión, Amsterdam: Stempelplaats, 1980, [78] pp. (Dutch)/(English)
- Delo 26(2): "Mail art, mail poetry. Poštanska umetnost, poštanska poezija", ed. Muharem Pervić, Belgrade: Nolit, Feb 1980. [3] (Serbo-Croatian)
- The Franklin Furnace Flue 4(3-4): "Mail Art Then and Now", Winter 1984.
- Ken Friedman, "Mail Art History: The Fluxus Factor", pp 18-24.
- Correspondence Art: Source Book for the Network of International Postal Activity, eds. Michael Crane and Mary Stofflet, San Francisco: Contemporary Arts Press, 1984. [4]
- Stefan Szczelkun (ed.), Post Art 1, London: Routine Art Co, 1985, [18] pp, PDF. Booklet of mail art documentation.
- Stewart Home, "Mail Art", "Beyond Mail Art", chs 13-14 in Home, The Assault on Culture: Utopian Currents from Lettrisme to Class War, London: Aporia Press and Unpopular Books, 1988, 115 pp; 2nd ed., AK Press, 1991, 128 pp. (English)
- Hand of the Spirit: Documents of the Seventies from the Morris/Trasov Archive, ed. Scott Watson, Vancouver: UBC Fine Arts Gallery, 1992, 47 pp. Catalogue. [5] [6]
- Géza Perneczky, The Magazine Network: The Trends of Alternative Art in the Light of Their Periodicals 1968-1988, Cologne: Soft Geometry, 1993, 285 pp.
- Profil 3-4: "Mail art", eds. Jaroslav Supek and Michal Murin, Bratislava: Kruh, 1994. (Slovak)
- The Eternal Network: A Mail Art Anthology, ed. Chuck Welch, University of Calgary Press, 1995, xxiii+304 pp.
- Ken Friedman, "The Early Days of Mail Art: An Historical Overview".
- Mail Art: Osteuropa im Internationelen Netzwerk, ed. Kornelia von Berswordt-Wallrabe, forew. Kornelia von Verswordt-Wallrabe and László Beke, Schwerin: Staatliches Museum, 1996, 126 pp. Exh. held 21 Jul-15 Aug 1996. [7] (German),(English)
- Mail Art. Kelet-Európa a nemzetközi hálózatban, ed. László Beke, Budapest: Műcsarnok, 1998, 72 p. [8] (Hungarian)
- John Held Jr., "Bay Area Dada: Before Punk and Zines", c1999.
- Mark Pawson, "The Mailart Network; Communication, Participation, Play", Variant 7 (Winter 1998/Spring 1999), pp 9-12.
- Arthur C. Danto, "Correspondance School Art", Nation, 29 Mar 1999, pp 30-34.
- Géza Perneczky, Network Atlas: Worls and Publications by the People of the First Network. A Historical Atlas for the Post-Fluxus Movements as Mail Art, Visual Poetry, Copy Art, Stamp Art & Other Relative Trends with Addresses, Projects, Publications & Exhibition Events, Volume 1: A-N, Volume 2: O-Z, Cologne, 2003. Unedited manuscript.
- Tusa Shea, Representing the Eternal Network: Vancouver Artists' Publications, 1969-73, University of Victoria, 2004. Thesis.
- John Held Jr., "The Mail Art Exhibition: Personal Worlds to Cultural Strategies", in At a Distance: Precursors to Art and Activism on the Internet, eds. Annmarie Chandler and Norie Neumark, MIT Press, 2005, pp 88-114.
- Craig Saper, "Networked Psychoanalysis: A Dialogue with Anna Freud Banana", in At a Distance: Precursors to Art and Activism on the Internet, eds. Annmarie Chandler and Norie Neumark, MIT Press, 2005, pp 246-258
- Simone Osthoff, "From Mail Art to Telepresence: Communication at a Distance in the Works of Paulo Bruscky and Eduardo Kac", in At a Distance: Precursors to Art and Activism on the Internet, eds. Annmarie Chandler and Norie Neumark, MIT Press, 2005, pp 260-280.
- Emily Robertson, The Evolution of Mail Art in Canada, Montreal: Concordia University, 2007. Dissertation.
- Marie Boivent, "Un art 'délivré'. Sur quelques utilisations du service postal depuis les années 1960", Marges 8, 2008, pp 51-69. (French)
- Seeta Peña Gangadharan, "Mail Art: Networking Without Technology", New Media & Society 11:1-2, 2009, pp 279-298.
- Franziska Dittert, Mail Art in der DDR. Eine intermediale Subkultur im Kontext der Avantgarde, Berlin: Logos, 2010. [9] (German)
- ARTMargins 1(2-3): "Artists' Networks in Latin America and Eastern Europe", eds. Klara Kemp-Welch and Cristina Freire, MIT Press, Jun-Oct 2012. [10]
- 1962-2012: 50 Years of Mail Art, Mail Art Museum of Montecarotto, 2012, 60 pp. Catalogue. (Italian),(English)
- Rinus van Alebeek, "The Early Years", Staalzine 2 (2013), Berlin.
- Peter van der Meijden, "Box Boxing Boxers. Mail Art Projects, Exhibitions and Archives", 2014. An introduction to the Lomholt Mail Art Archive.
- Laura Dunkin-Hubby, Networking and Craft in Three Generations of Mail Art, San José State University, 2014. Master's thesis.
- Zanna Gilbert, "Genealogical Diversions: Experimental Poetry Networks, Mail Art and Conceptualisms", En caiana. Revista de Historia del Arte y Cultura Visual del Centro Argentino de Investigadores de Arte (CAIA) 4, 2014.
- Kornelia Röder, "Ray Johnson and the Mail Art Scene in Eastern Europe", kunsttexte.de/ostblick 3: "Mythmaking Eastern Europe: Art in Response", ed. Mateusz Kapustka, 2014. [11]
- Außer Kontrolle! Farbgrafik und Mail Art in der DDR / Out of Control! Colour Prints and Mail Art in the GDR, eds. Paul Kaiser, Christina May and Kornelia Röder, Cologne: Walther Koenig, and Schwerin: Staatliches Museum, 2015, 256 pp. Catalogue. [12] [13] (German)/(English)
- Keep Art Flat! Mail Art and the Political 1970s, Copenhagen: Kunsthal Charlottenborg, 2016. Catalogue for exh. held 15 Sep-6 Nov 2016; selection of ~250 works from the Lomholt Mail Art Archive. Introduction, Welch's essay, other essays. [14]
- Stephen Moonie, "A Poet of “Non-ressentiment”? Lawrence Alloway, Ray Johnson, and the Art World as a Network", Getty Research Journal 8, 2016, pp 161-176.
- Revista ARTA 32: "Mail Art", ed. Dan Mihălțianu, Bucharest: Revista Arta, 2018. Excerpt. [15] (Romanian)/(English)
- Colby Chamberlain, "International Indeterminacy: George Maciunas and the Mail", ARTMargins 7:3, Oct 2018, pp 57-85. [16]
- Mark Bloch, "A Brief History of Postal Art", n.d.
- Mail art at Wikipedia
Bibliographies
- John Held Jr., Mail Art: an Annotated Bibliography, Metuchen, NJ and London: Scarecrow Press, 1991, 582 pp. [17]. Review: Stahl (Art Doc).
- Bibliography at Mail Artists Index
- From Wikipedia
See also
Fluxus, Zine culture, Cassette culture, Neoism.
Links
- Analog Network: Mail Art 1960-1999, online companion to 2014 exhibition at MoMA
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