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Mail Art., 1990 - 1996

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Scope and Contents

From the Collection:

The David Cole Papers collects mail and book art materials from visual artist David Cole (1939-2000). This collection is made up of four series: MAIL ART, CORRESPONDENCE, PUBLICATIONS, and ARTISTS BOOKS, ART OBJECTS, & STAMPS. Due to the nature of mail art, the MAIL ART series contains what would typically be categorized as correspondence. Materials in this series includes mail art organizations' newsletters and publications, exhibit ephemera, mailing lists, and 25 of Cole's scrapbook binders, which have been deconstructed for preservation purposes. This series has file-level indexes of artists. Also included in this series are cassettes, often containing spoken word art, sent to Cole by others. Any correspondence that does not include illustrations, creative writing, specialty stamps, or other artistic material is in the CORRESPONDENCE series. The PUBLICATION series contains mail art publications and Cole's collected serial zines and various publications. The ARTISTS BOOKS, ART OBJECTS, & STAMPS series is made up of works by Cole and by others. The artist books have been transferred to Special Collections' x-collection and can be requested via the InfoHawk+ online catalog. A non-exhaustive index of Cole's artist books can be found in index notes for line items. The series also includes Cole's exlectic rubber stamp collection, wood letterforms, and some art objects. Mail artists with a prominent number of materials in this collection include (non-exhaustive): Cracker Jack Kid, Ryosuke Cohen, K.S. Ernst, Monty Cantsin (an artist's collective), Neoist, Carlo Pittore, Marilyn R. Robinson, Shimamoto Shozo, and David Zack.

Dates

  • Creation: 1990 - 1996

Creator

Conditions Governing Access

This collection is open for research.

Extent

12 folders

Language of Materials

From the Collection: English

From the Collection: Italian

From the Collection: Japanese

From the Collection: Russian

From the Collection: German

From the Collection: Hebrew

Afzet Allen, B.H. Altor Artpool Banana Productions Barbot, Fernand Barbot, Gerard Bennet, John M Boterstr, Luce Fierens Buchlabor Byrd, Greg Caddells, Roslyn Cantsin, Monty Carl Claessens, Eva Cohen, Ryosuke Conaway, Judith Cracker Jack Kid Dancing Dolphin Davidsone Galleries Dept. of Motor Vehicles (from Cole) Dianne Dina / Black Wing Studio Equipe de Arte Postal Erikson, Roger Ernst Museum Ernst, K.S. Esyk Museum Felter, Jas W. Forman, Carol Gross, Clara Hartge, Caroline Howard, Ruth Inenflux OG It's in the mail exhibitions Joki / Kunst-Bahnausen Kremer, Claudia La Revue Envelope La Toanvinh Laxson, Ruth Long, Mary Ellen Lumbia, Sara Mail-Art-Project Ampersan Mer Mittendorf, Henning Mohler, Annie Montes, Rene Murakami, Kazunori Murray, Rene N is for Newsletter Obvious Front Perneczky, Geza Petasz, Pawel Peters, Amanda Plicher, Barry Edgar Printed Matter Rosenberg, Marilyn R Sara Sarahual Sarajevo / Darko Vulic SHE Shecun Shimamoto, Shozo Shin, Hyun Kyoung Signori Giada St. Kilda Fax Art Festival Stad Harelbeke Stadt Uelzen Stetser, Carol Takayo Takelo-Eskola, Ilkka Juhani Tattle, Richard Tavenner, Patricia / Eternal Press Tensetendoned Unger, Dan Van Dur Burg, Sonja Weidenhoff, Paul Weisser, Carl Welch, Chuck Xenoxial Zelevansky, Paul

Repository Details

Part of the University of Iowa Special Collections Repository

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