Mail Art Periodicals - MoMA

Vol. 2, No. 7 (July 1979). Offset and Rubber Stamp. 9 1/4"x6 1/4".
(16 pages). Issue featuring the eraser carved rubber stamps of geORge brett
(USA). "The parameters of mail/art correspondence art are defined by the
system which incorporates and processes mail art: the United States Postal
Service. The postal service dictates the size limitations, partial content (or
forbidden content), and the costs, among other things. But the service also
provides mail artists a model for imitation. The creation of special postal systems
is an obvious imitation of the larger system; OR Post is an example." Stamps in
honor of Ray Johnson (USA), R. Mutt (USA), Steve Durland (USA), Al Ackerman
(USA), Marie Combs (USA), Pawel Petasz (Poland), Richard Craven (USA), Ed
Varney (Canada), Mohammed (Italy), et al. Also features the eraser carvings of
Henryk Bzdok (Poland). "The Polish artist Henryk Bzdok, living in Katowice, has
been active in the field of Mail-Art for quiet a long time. The pieces included in
this show have all a postcard format and are produced under the name 'BZZcarts."
"Rubbernews."
Vol. 2, No. 8 (August 1979). Offset and Rubber Stamps. 9 1/4"x6
1/4". (16 pages). Features a Mail-Art project by Ulises Carrión (Holland),
"Artist's Postage Stamps and Cancellations Stamps," held at the Stempelplaats
Gallery, Amsterdam, Holland. Includes the landmark essay, "Personal Worlds or
Cultural Strategies," by Carrión. "Up to the present, no art critic has made a
serious attempt to identify and describe the elements of works of this kind, how
they affect each other, and the way they function as a whole, that is, as a
finished art work. they apply instead concepts borrowed from other art practices
that either cover too much or too little. the most striking of these inadequacies is
related to the apparent plural authorship of a mail-Art work. In a project like this
one, containing around 150 pieces, am I to be considered the author of only that
one showing my signature?...All 150 pieces should rather be considered one
element of a complex art work that involves much more than that which the
public see hanging form the wall." "List of participants."
Vol. 2, No. 10 (October 1979). Offset and Rubber Stamp. 9 1/4"x6
1/4". (16 pages). Issue featuring R. Saunders (USA). Conceptual pages
based on gloves.
Vol. 2, No. 11 (November 1979). Offset and Rubber Stamps. 9
1/4"x6 1/4". (16 pages). Catalog for the exhibition of rubber stamp works by
Raul Marroquin (Holland), at the Stempelplaats Gallery, Amsterdam, Holland,
November 10-December 7, 1979. Essay by the artist. "The increasing use of
rubber stamps within the visual arts has made the rubber pieces mounted on
wooden blocks the tools of a new discipline within the graphic field. The rubber
print is a simple method for dispersing ideas, concepts, slogans, and more and
more drawings, photographs, and various graphic materials. The growing use of
the medium by artists, writers, performers, and videomakers has reinforced the
position of rubber stamping in contemporary art-many exhibitions, festivals and