A Mail - Art Glossary.

Hello people!

Now that I'm back at work, my writing projects have started to pick up. While working on one, I though of another. I want to make a glossary of mail-art terms to define and print on a broadside. Any suggestions? I want to define the big and the small, for example, I want to define an "add and pass."

Share your words and phrases with me, if you're so kind. Doing so here, won't even cost 55 cents.

jon

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Comment by Nancy Bell Scott on September 7, 2020 at 12:45am: If you can find out what "collage" means, I'll be incredulous and also eternally grateful. But whether or not -- excellent project, Jon.

Comment by Richard Canard on September 4, 2020 at 8:06pm: 04.09.20 Dare Mister Jon Foster,....Oh, Good! ...glad to hear you are working on this. ...Maybe alas , we can find out what "Collage" means. & "Art" & "Mail Art" (or is "Correspondence Art"?) & that "Fluxus" thing. Anyway, all best for your project... I have great confidence in Jon Foster. SinCelery, Richard Canard .....Post Scriptum: I thought your Telephone( leave a message) Project was (is) terrific.

Comment by jon foster on September 4, 2020 at 5:53pm: Yes folks, these are great. I'm going to solicit input from a few other groups and the post an updated list to everyone. Thank you guys!

Comment by Carmela Rizzuto on September 3, 2020 at 4:31pm: Eternal Network

Comment by Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat) on September 3, 2020 at 8:02am: a train-of-thought:

GOTIJ - FluXus word

FeMail Art -

Comment by Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat) on September 3, 2020 at 7:57am: TLP - Tacking Little Pamphlet

ChocoPo - Chocolate Poetry art

TrashPo - Trash Poetry art

SandPo - Sand Poetry art

Haptic - just that :-)

ZALOP - FluXus word

FluXus -

DaDa -

Comment by Carmela Rizzuto on September 3, 2020 at 2:46am: https://www.moma.org/interactives/exhibitions/2014/analognetwork/

"Brain Cell: editor Ryosuke Cohen collects artists’ rubber stamp impressions and stickers through the mail, gathers and reprints them on a poster-sized sheet, and redistributes the results...."

Might find some more terms there.

Comment by Carmela Rizzuto on September 3, 2020 at 1:05am: Faux postage!

Comment by Carmela Rizzuto on September 3, 2020 at 12:59am: Artists Stamps

Add & Return

Mail art call

Mail art videos, recordings

Asemic

Vispo

Trashart

Envelope only mail art

Comment by Carien van Hest on September 2, 2020 at 6:33pm: Great initiative.

Snail mail

Bookie

Zines

ATC's (artist trading cards)

Ephemera

Stamps

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