Looking For Mail-Art Books

[jon foster]

Want to Help Diana Hale?

Hello, I’m Jon Foster writing to you on behalf of Diana Hale (Virginia USA) Industries.

Diana Hale is looking to build a small library of mail-art related books and publications. This library will be available to the public, and displayed in a building currently under renovation in Staunton Virginia. This space will be a base of mail-art and collage activities.

7 Lawyers Row, Staunton Virginia 24401 USA

Here is where you come in, Diana is looking for mail-art book suggestions. Books dealing with the history of mail-art, as well as individual mail-artists, and mail-are movements and shows. Books “around the subject,” slightly related to the subject, can work as well. Do you have any suggestions for must have books? General thoughts?

Please, keep in mind the price and availability of some of these titles.

The provided list is what she already has in her collection.

Thanks for your help.

-jon “book guy for Diana” foster

Mail Art and Mail Art Related Books in Diana Hale’s Collection

Mail-Art Biographies / Autobiography / Memoirs

Roll Over Picasso: E.F. Higgins II His Life and Art – Istvan Kantor – 2023

25 Years in Mail-Art – Ruud Janssen – 2008

Mail Art Et cetera – Jas W Felter – 2018

Authentik & Historikal: A Mail Art Memoir: Correspondence, Community, Connection – John Held Jr. – 2022

General Mail Art

Ellsworth Kelley: Postcards – Ian Berry, Jessica Eisenthal – 2022

Mail Me Art: Going Postal with the World's Best Illustrators and Designers – Darren Di Lieto – 2009

Artist Stamps

Artistamps Francobolli D’Arista – 2000 – James Warren Felter

Small Scale Subversion: Mail Art and Artistamps – John Held Jr. – 2015

The Stamp Art and Postal History of Michael Thompson and Michael Hernandez de Luna – Michael Thompson – 2001

Ray Johnson

That Was the Answer: Interviews with Ray Johnson – Julie J. Thomson, David Bourdon, et al. 2018

Please Send to Real Life: Ray Johnson Photographs – Joel Smith – 2022

Ray Johnson – Brad Gooch – 2017

Ray Johnson: The Paper Snake – Ray Johnson – 2014

Ray Johnson c/o – Caitlin Haskell and Jordan Carter – 2021

Fluxus

Fluxus Means Change: Jean Brown’s Avant-Garde Archive – Marcia Reed – 2020

Grapefruit: A Book of Instructions and Drawings By Yoko Ono – Yoko Ono and John Lennon 0 2000

The Post

The Englishman Who Posted Himself and Other Curious Objects – John Tingey – 2010

[jon foster]

Thanks so much Carmela. I was just reading about her postcard making process in another book.

[Carmela Rizzuto]

This book features mail art postcards (collage and drawings) by Lenore Tawney (fiber artist, 1907-2007). See more about her using Google.

Lenore Tawney. Signs on the Wind. 2002. Pomegranate Communications Inc, Rohnert Park, CA 94927.  

ISBN 0-7649-2130-4