Géza Perneczky - Ruud Janssen

Glendale CA, 1979 / 1981
U.S. Post Office Stratifies the Postcard (Essay about the Postal Service and the
strategy of Mail Art) In: Umbrella, Vol. 2, #4. 77 p. July 1979
Alternative Art Publishing Conference. A journal about the New York scene and the
conference in the Visual Studies Workshop (→ Lyons), Nov. 5-6, 1979,
Rochester. Among the featured publishers and institutions Nathan
Lyons, Richard Minsky (Center for Book Arts, London), Ulises Carrión
(Other Book & So), Tom Ockerse (Rhode Island School of Design),
David Buchan (Art Metropole, Toronto), Dick Higgins (Something Else
Press), Clive Philpott (MOMA), Martha Wilson (Franklin Furnace),
Felipe Ehrenberg (Beau Geste Press, Devon), Chuck Hagen (Magazine
Afterimage), Judit Hoffberg (Umbrella), the problems of art magazines,
the book distribution, criticism, exhibitions, etc. Appeared in Umbrella,
Vol. 2, #6, 125-131 p. Glendale, November 1979.
^Freedom – Mail Art Show. Inv. Exh. at the Armory Center for the Arts, Passadena,
curator: Judit → Hoffberg. 1992
^Cross + Currents. Bookworks from the edge of the Pacific- Cat.: Letter, offset, 56 p.
Spiral bound. / Umbrella Ass. Texts: J. A. Hoffberg, → Buzz Spector,
Harry Reese. Exh.: University of California, Santa Barbara, Nov. 1990
/ California State Univ. Hayward, Oct. 1991 / Selby Gallery, Sarasota,
Febr.-March 1992
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Literature:
^Giny Lloyd: Judit Hoffberg and the Umbrella. German translation in: Materialien
an der Fachhochschule Würzburg, 1981-82, edited by Hubert Kretschmer.
A/5, phc., 22 leaves. Würzburg, 1977.
(Statement): «This is the first issue of Umbrella, which is a new vehicle for art
news, reviews and resource information. We know that we cannot be comprehensive
, but we are trying to give you as much news as possible in a clear, concise
format.
We feel that we are presenting you with an information resource that appeals
to art historians, artists, librarians, and anyone else who is interested in what is happening
in this most explosive period of art development.
We also offer a means of inter-communication with our column called INFO
EXCHANGE, which we are offering to you as a service. Please take advantage of
this column...» (Umbrella, Vol. 1, #1, Jan. 1978)
«To paraphrase the stockbrocker's ad, „When Hoffberg writes, book and mail artists
listen.“ This is the motherlode. Tons of leads, reviews, contacs and good resources...
In fact, all sorts of artists have been doing covers and centerfolds for Umbrella. It's
a happy day when this magazine hits the inside of the mailbox. Better yet when one
digs in. (Lightworks [→ Burch]. These Things Too [Print review]. N° 16, Winter
1983-84. 59 p.)
«The Judith A. Hoffberg Collection of Bookworks has been acquired by the 9
campuses of the University of California and will be housed at the Art Library of
UCLA in Los Angeles. The collection of over 2000 artists' books and periodicals
also includes the archive of exhibition catalogs, reference tools, correspondence
files, as well as unformation files on the growth and development of the whole field
of bookworks since the early 1960s...
(In: Umbrella [→ Hoffberg]. Vol.8, #1. 7 p. 1984)
Judith A. Hoffberg: Mail Art Today: Self-Sustaining or Self-Destructing? In: M. →
Crane / M. Stofflet (eds.) Correspondence Art. Contemporary Art Press (→ Loeffler).
San Francisco, 1984. XX-XXI.
^Lon Spiegelman: Archives (about the purchasing the Judith A. Hoffberg Collection