Mail-Art Books

The Mail-Interview Project took 6 years with daily portions of work from 3 to 5 hours......

The interview with Dobrica kamperelic was first published in this book he edited.

John Held Jr. 's Book contains an overview of all kind of Mail-Art sources (not the texts itself). For a researcher a great tool to find historic sources.

Artistamps are easy to produce nowadays with the easy access to computers and programms. It used to be different in the year this exhibition was done. A beautiful historic collection.

Book about Mail-Art by Vittore Baroni (italian Language). He published an edition of 1000 copies I believe. I have several in my TAM-Archive. Just in case someone wants one, make me an offer.

A very well done catalogue of a mail-art project in Luxembourgh.

I have some magazines with substances on the such polstal art… rsrsrs seems to have to be a joke. But I have much book of art and the only one that it has something as postal art is of the Van Gogh when it sent letters for the Teo brother.

Published in edition of 100. Also 3 colourversions were printed. Available ath the MoMa in New York (in their library actually).

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).

The classic book on Correspondence Art.

Very interesting book from Stewart Home about Neoism.

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.

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

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

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.

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.......

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

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.

The Mail-Art Statements Collection book is a quite rare book. Only 4 copies were printed so far. One I ordered myself. Three others bought the book (you are one of them Wilma). One even bought the colourversion of this book (he wanted the colour-reprints of the lecture and other things).

So I appreciate your possitive words Wilma. Not mant mail-artists seem to be inerested in historic facts.

soon it will be not so rare anymore since I plan on ordering sets to send to museums, libraries and archives. Yje MoMa in New York has also a lot from me in their archives.....

For our Fluxus Heidelberg Center two more publications are now in preparation. First test prints are ordered. When they are o.k. the information will be published here and on http://stores.lulu.com/fluxusheidelberg

There is already one interesting book, the performances Litsa & I did for the Fluxus Heidelberg Center. The colourversions is the best, but expensive. The B&W gives a good view of What Litsa & I did in several countries......

Yes, ordering more books makes the postage cheaper. last time I ordered 5 books and the postage was only 18 euro's. For one book they sometimes even charge more.

A beautiful book on Artistamps. Gift from Jim Swanson. Large full colour book with historic material. A treasure to see and go to.

Yes, you are right. It is good to have such frieds and to realize how generous they are. Things like this I never forget.

Thanks for the kind words Wilma!