Mail art

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• Endre Tót
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• Edgardo Antonio Vigo
• Lutz Wohlrab
• Ruth Wolf-Rehfeldt
• David Zack

Literature

• Ken Friedman, "Flowing in Omaha", Art and Artists, London, August 1973.
• Ken Friedman, "Mail Art History" The Fluxus Factor", Flue 4:3-4 (Winter 1984), pp 18-24.
• Stewart Home, "Mail Art", Chapter 13 of The Assault on Culture, London: Aporia Press and Unpopular Books, 1988, pp 69-73.
• Stewart Home, "Beyond Mail Art", Chapter 14 of The Assault on Culture, London: Aporia Press and Unpopular Books, 1988, pp 74-79.
• Géza Perneczky, The Magazine Network: The Trends of Alternative Art in the Light of Their Periodicals 1968-1988, Cologne: Soft Geometry, 1993, 285 pp.
• 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.
• Mark Bloch, "A Brief History of Postal Art".
• 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.
• Rinus van Alebeek, "The Early Years", Staalzine 2 (2013), Berlin.
• Mail art at Wikipedia

Magazines and Journals

• Umbrella journal, edited by Judith Hoffberg, 1978-2008. The journal covered news and reviews of artists' books, mail art and contemporary art and photography tradebooks.
• 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.

Bibliographies

• Bibliography at Mail Artists Index
• From Wikipedia

Resources

• Artpool
• Lomholt Mail Art Archive, works from 1970-1985.
• Mail Artists Index
• http://digital.lib.buffalo.edu/cdm/landingpage/collection/LIB-PC001

See also

Fluxus, Cassette culture, Neoism.