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The German title translated into English is "The Meaning of Words. The text is placed one word on each page and reads " page by page you discover the mystery of this book." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The curator, Raphael Tous, was also the collector of the books on display. Ulises Carrion, Guy Schraenen and Jose Luis Mata contributed introductory essays about artist books. It included approximately 1000 books. Several pages have been detached from the glued binding. Several books exhibited in this exhibition are also held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This second volume of the catalogue mainly documents the Congress held in conjunction with the exhibition. It includes a congress summary by Kornelia Roder. There are also essays by Geza Perneczky, Karol Sauerland, Piotr Rypson, Guy Schraenen, Karla Sachse, Joachim Blank, and Balint Szombathy on the political-cultural-artistic implications of Mail Art. The catalogue contains a transcription of a panel discussion on Mail Art. The participants included Ruth Wolf-Rehfeldt, Klaus Groh, Leonard Frank Duch, Joseph H. Huber, Thomas Schulz, Birger Jesch, Hans-Ruedi Fricker, and Uwe Warnke. The catalogue reprints reviews of the exhibition. Four pages of calligraphic concrete poetry, entitled "Mnemonic Scores" by Valeri Scherstjanoi begin this book. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents This exhibition, curated by Kornelia Roder, provides an extensive review of Mail Art examples and exhibitions in Eastern Europe. It is well documented with respect to visuals and text. Several practitioners have contributed essays. Among them, Guy Schraenen's "Addressee Unknown" is particularly relevant to the field. He writes, "Although Mail Art was influenced by visual and concrete poetry, a language of pictures internationally understood, it was English that became the language of Mail Art right from the start. This is the reason why you speak of Mail Art rather than of Art Postal, Arte Postale, Arte Correo or Postkunst...Postal items to unknown addressees have created a circle of related minds. Such ties are the grandeur of a worldwide movement of communication. But Mail Art is only a facet of it. Mail Art used to be a fashion, and as a fashion it will again disappear. It has, however enriched the international art scene by numerous works which otherwise would have been...