Mail-Art Books

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Comment by Ruud Janssen on February 6, 2009 at 7:08am

The IUOMA-book - 20 years celebration is being mad. First text are coming in. Illustrations are added. Deadline is beginning July when I hope to publish it. When you have suggestion for texts and visuals to be included, please contact me.

Comment by Ruud Janssen on January 31, 2009 at 11:41am

The famous book "The paper Snake" by Ray Johnson. Collectors Item. Something Else Press - Dick Higgins

Comment by Ruud Janssen on January 28, 2009 at 7:01am

I will try to find that book "Mail-Art Handbook" by Henryk Gajewsky, so everybody can see how that looks like. It has a golden band on it.......

Comment by Ruud Janssen on January 27, 2009 at 5:10pm

Thanks for the kind words Wilma. Glad you enjoyed reading it. Interviews are always a fascinating way to explore things. Will tell my director about the time-managent thing. But maybe he already knows since last year he made me teamleader of two departments. Enjoy the second book.

Comment by Ruud Janssen on January 25, 2009 at 9:30am

Also a book that I should advise. Good essays about the 90-ies and mail-art

Comment by Ruud Janssen on January 25, 2009 at 8:25am

The experimental art and poetry of the last half of the twentieth century offers a glimpse of the emerging networked culture that electronic devices will make omnipresent. Craig J. Saper demarcates this new genre of networked art, which uses the trappings of bureaucratic systems-money, logos, corporate names, stamps-to create intimate situations among the participants.

In Saper's analysis, the pleasures that these aesthetic situations afford include shared special knowledge or new language among small groups of participants. Functioning as artworks in themselves, these temporary institutional structures-networks, publications, and collective works-give rise to a gift-exchange community as an alternative economy and social system. Saper explains how this genre developed from post-World War II conceptual art, including periodicals as artworks in themselves; lettrist, concrete, and process poetry; Bauhaus versus COBRA; Fluxus publications, kits, and machines; mail art and on-sendings. The encyclopedic scope of the book includes discussions of artists from J. Beuys to J. S. G. Boggs, and Bauhaus's Max Bill to Anna Freud Banana. Networked Art is an essential guide to the digital artists and networks of the emerging future.

Craig J. Saper is associate professor of multimedia at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia, and is the author of Artificial Mythologies (Minnesota, 1997).

• Paperback: 224 pages
• Publisher: Univ Of Minnesota Press; 1 edition (June 19, 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0816637075
• ISBN-13: 978-0816637072
• Product Dimensions: 5.9 x 0.7 x 9 inches

Comment by Ruud Janssen on January 23, 2009 at 7:16am

Are there new (or old) mail-art publications that mail-artists have which are rare? Would love to see visuals here of those publications that I have not seen before. I will do my best to publish also information about the books that have been published in the past.

Comment by Ruud Janssen on January 22, 2009 at 5:48pm

Very interesting book from Stewart Home about Neoism.

Comment by Ruud Janssen on January 19, 2009 at 5:43am

The classic book on Correspondence Art.

Comment by Ruud Janssen on January 18, 2009 at 4:38pm

A very interesting Dual Language book (Italian and English) by Gianni Broi. One of my texts about Electronic Mail-Art is in the book (also translated into Italian).

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