Ulises Carrión: Second Thoughts (1980)

“This book includes the theoretical and polemical works by Ulises Carrión from the Other Books and So Archief. Covering themes as bookworks, rubber-stamps and mail-art, these texts are here for the first time assembled in one volume, after having been published in periodicals and catalogues in various countries. For this edition, numerous annotations (references and anecdotes) have been adddd by the author.” (from p 1)

Included essays: “The New Art of Making Books”, “From Bookworks to Mailworks”, “Rubber Stamp Theory and Praxis”, “Rubber Stamp Art”, “Mail Art and the Big Monster”, “Table of Mail Art Works”, “Personal Worlds or Cultural Strategies?”, “Bookworks Revisited”.

Publisher VOID Distributors, Amsterdam, 1980
72 pages
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Publisher
WorldCat

PDF (2 MB)
JPGs (at Lomholt Mail Art Archive)

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Quoz? (1975)

Two issues of a “Bay Area Dada” magazine from the mid-1970s.

The first one is a collection of short poems by over 40 authors including Anna Banana, Ken Friedman, and Genesis P. Orridge.

The latter issue features pen and ink drawings by Opal L. Nations divided into four sections entitled “On the Study of Genetics”, “On Physical Culture”, “On the Art of Surgery” and “Some General Observations”.

Edited by Carlo Giovanni Cicatelli (aka Charles Chickadel)
Associate Editor: Carol Ann See
Publisher Trinity Press, San Francisco
via Matt Wellins

Commentary (John Held Jr.)

Volume III, Number 10 (Summer 1975, 49 pp)
Volume III, Number 12 (Winter 1975-76, 44 pp)

Judith A. Hoffberg (ed.): Umbrella (1978–2008)

Umbrella was a newsletter-magazine edited and published by Judith A. Hoffberg from 1978 until 2008. In her work, Hoffberg enthusiastically championed Fluxus, inexpensive artists’ books, mail art, rubber-stamp art, and many other offbeat forms of expression of the second half of the 20th century all of which found their way into Umbrella in the form of interviews, news and reviews.

Géza Perneczky credits Umbrella as “perhaps the most comprehensive and most usable unofficial source of information” on mail art and artists’ publications during the period from 1978 to 1984. (in The Magazine Network, 1993: 12)

Publisher Umbrella Associates, Santa Monica, CA
Open Access, the archive is hosted by the Herron Art Library of IUPUI University Library
ISSN 0160-0699

The Career and Collection of Judith A. Hoffberg (Anthony Marcus Leslie, dissertation, advisor: Johanna Drucker, 2012, 151 pp)
UmbrellaEditions.com

View online (PDF articles of the full run of the magazine)