Mail Art Periodicals - MoMA

working with rubber stamps in 1973 when an extensive collection of stamps
designed and manufactured in the early 1930's was given to me. These stamps
had been a hermeneutic tool originally used to teach reading but had been long
since abandoned. I see my work with stamps as an extension of my writings.
Most recently the one-of-a-kind books I've done make use of a fixed 'vocabulary'
of stamp images exploring techniques of repetition, blurring, juxtaposition and
serial ordering on varieties of paper and in various formats. Page as space.
Frame tension. Transparency. Movement & transformation. Disclosure as issue."
Vol. 1, No. 10 (October 1978). Offset and Rubber Stamps. 9 1/4"x6
1/4". (8 pages). Issue featuring J. H. Kocman (Czechoslovakia). One of the
most important rubber stamp artists in the emerging Mail Art network. Editor of
"Stamp Activity," "the first international rubber stamp anthology. this work was
realized in the year 1972, in 30 copies, with 124 original rubber stamp-print
contributions by 25 artists." Biographical information on the artist.
Vol. 1, No. 11 (November 1978). Offset and Rubber Stamps. 9
1/4"x6 1/4". (8 pages). Issue featuring Bill Gaglione (USA) and Anna Banana
(USA). "Rubber Stamp Shows and Publications," from 1974 to 1978.
Vol. 1, No. 12 (December 1978). Offset and Rubber Stamps. 9
1/4"x6 1/4". (8 pages). Issue featuring Franz Immoos (Holland). Stampobjects.
Vol. 2, No. 1 (January 1979). Offset and Rubber Stamp. 9 1/4"x6
1/4". (16 pages). Issue featuring Davi Det hompson (USA). "A booklet that
tells everything Davi Det Hompson knows about stamps and stamping." In
addition to reproducing the featured artists' work, a section "Rubber-News,"
appears.
Vol. 2, No. 2 (February 1979). Offset. 9 1/4"x6 1/4". (16 pages).
"Introduction," by Ulises Carrión. "This catalogue has been designed to be
complementary to the exhibition of stampworks by 4 Brazilian artists: Paulo
Bruscky, Leonhard Frank Duch, Unhandijara Lisboa and J. Medeiros.
"Rubbernews."
Vol. 2, No. 3 (March 1979). Offset and Rubber Stamps. 9 1/4"x6
1/4". (16 pages). "Fluxus Stamps." Contributions by Wolf Vostell (West
Germany), Robin Page (Canada), Jean Jacques Lebel (France), Robert Watts
(USA), George Brecht (USA), Ben Patterson USA), Dick Higgins (USA), Nam
June Paik (USA), A. Köpcke (Denmark), Stanley Brouwn (USA), Ben Vautier
(France). Includes an illustration of "Flux Post Kit 7," and an original rubber
stamp impression by Dick Higgins.