This time a spanisch Thesis got published ion which the IUOMA was part too. See:

http://diposit.ub.edu/dspace/handle/2445/52226

Títol:  Análisis Histórico del Arte Correo en América Latina
Autor:  Pianowski, Fabiane
Director:  Cirlot, Lourdes
Matèria:  Art postal
Art conceptual
Art contemporani
Cultura llatinoamericana
Mail art
Conceptual art
Contemporary art
Latin American culture
Data de publicació:  6-feb-2014
Publicat per:  Universitat de Barcelona
Resum:  [spa] Rompiendo con los circuitos oficiales de las galerías y museos, el arte correo enuncia una nueva forma de circulación del trabajo artístico, que enfatiza sobre todo lo colectivo. Esta alternativa es la manera de circulación de propuestas artísticas e ideas. Este modo alternativo de circulación de las proposiciones/ideas artísticas enunciaba la idea de red que, posteriormente, con el adviento de Internet, se haría una cuestión altamente relevante para la contemporaneidad. En los años 1960 y 1970, el uso de los Correos como un medio táctico en el ámbito del arte está relacionado con la apropiación de los medios de comunicación por parte de las manifestaciones artísticas del periodo –un periodo en que la creación de redes y la comunicación eran fundamentales. El arte correo es un conjunto de diferentes estéticas, que tienen en el sistema postal tradicional su canal de expresión, apropiándose de ese canal de modo subversivo para configurarlo en un canal cultural alternativo de intercambio de mensajes artísticos. En la década de los setenta, el arte correo era considerado por algunos críticos e historiadores de arte como uno de los grandes fenómenos de la vanguardia internacional. Su amplia actuación, posibilitaba para los nuevos lenguajes artísticos el desencadenamiento de nuevas situaciones comunicacionales y estructurales, como por ejemplo el anonimato. El objetivo del arte correo es romper con el flujo unidireccional emisor-receptor de los medios de comunicación de masa, a través de la participación activa del espectador en la obra, socializando la autoría y diluyendo las fronteras que separan artista y público. De esta forma el arte correo democratiza el arte. Infelizmente, existen pocos estudios académicos acerca del arte correo, probablemente porque es un campo de estudio complejo, en el cual la información es difícil de conseguir. Es difícil precisar hechos y fechas. Los documentos y producciones son efímeros. A pesar de esto, en esta investigación se han analizado en profundidad las publicaciones en arte correo y las declaraciones de los artistas para entender sus conexiones y estrategias de comunicación, especialmente en el ámbito latinoamericano.
[eng] Breaking away from the official circuits of art galleries and museums, mail art heralds a new era for the circulation of artistic work, which focuses primarily on the collective. This alternative means of circulation for artistic proposals and ideas brings forward the concept of network that would later, with the birth of the Internet, become a highly significant issue for contemporaneity. The use of mail in the 1960s and 1970s as a tactical instrument in the field of art relates to the appropriation of the means of communication by the period’s artistic manifestations – a period in which establishing networks and communicating were crucial cultural elements. Mail art is a collection of varied aesthetics, whose means of expression is through official mail. Mail art appropriates this means of expression in a subversive manner to configure an alternative cultural channel for the exchange of artistic messages. In the 1970s, some critics and art historians considered mail art as one of the great phenomena of the international avant-garde. In its broadest sense, its actions enabled the new artistic languages to trigger communicational and structural situations, such as for example the anonymity. The goal of the mail art community was to break away from media’s one-way sender-receiver flow, through the spectators’ active participation in the piece itself. That would socialize authorship and dilute the borders that divide the artist and the public. In so doing, mail art democratizes art. Unfortunately, there are few academic studies about mail art, probably because that field of study is obdurately complex, the information is difficult to obtain. It is difficult to accurate facts and datas. The documents and works were frequently intend as ephemera. In spite of that, in this study we analyse in depth mail artists’ publications and interviews to understand their communicational connections and strategies, particularly in the field of Latin America.
URI:  http://hdl.handle.net/2445/52226
Apareix en les col·leccions: Tesis Doctorals - Departament - Història de l'Art

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Comment by borderlinegrafix on April 6, 2014 at 2:44am

I was thinking of cut and paste into Google translate, then put in Word doc.

Comment by Petrolpetal on April 5, 2014 at 7:40pm
Yeah. I'll search for some academic work on mail art in English. Should be interesting.
Comment by Ruud Janssen on April 5, 2014 at 3:51pm

Only need someone to translate the Spanish......

Comment by borderlinegrafix on April 5, 2014 at 2:24pm

Dear Ruud,

Thank you for the link.  336 pages and 17 MB!

Regards,

Borderline Grafix

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