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Scope and Contents
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: 1975-2000
Creator
- From the Collection: Cole, David, 1939-2000 (Person)
- From the Collection: Abe, Kayoko (Person)
- From the Collection: Barbot, Claudine (Person)
- From the Collection: Barbot, Fernand (mail artist) (Person)
- From the Collection: Barbot, Gerard C. (Person)
- From the Collection: Bennett, John M., 1942- (Person)
- From the Collection: Bloch, Mark, 1956- (Person)
- From the Collection: Cantsin, Monty (multiple-use name) (Person)
- From the Collection: Cavellini, Guglielmo Achille, 1914-1990 (Person)
- From the Collection: Cohen, Ronny (Person)
- From the Collection: Cohen, Ryosuke, 1948- (Person)
- From the Collection: Cunning, Deborah (Mail artist) (Person)
- From the Collection: Dogfish (Seattle-based correspondence artist) (Person)
- From the Collection: Ernst, K. S. (Person)
- From the Collection: Fish, Pat, 1957-2021 (Person)
- From the Collection: Fricker, H. R. (Hans-Ruedi) (Person)
- From the Collection: Hirka, Alexander Josef, 1951- (Person)
- From the Collection: Laxson, Ruth (Person)
- From the Collection: Murakami, Kazunori (mail artist) (Person)
- From the Collection: Padín, Clemente, 1939- (Person)
- From the Collection: Perneczky, Géza, 1936- (Person)
- From the Collection: Pittore, Carlo, 1943-2005 (Person)
- From the Collection: Random, Steve, 1954- (Person)
- From the Collection: Ropiecki, Waclaw, 1951- (Person)
- From the Collection: Rosenberg, M. R. (Marilyn R.), 1934- (Person)
- From the Collection: Sharp, Anne (American artist) (Person)
- From the Collection: Spiegelman, Lon (Person)
- From the Collection: Stetser, Carol (Person)
- From the Collection: Takalo-Eskola, Iikka-Juhani (Person)
- From the Collection: Takayo (Mail artist) (Person)
- From the Collection: Truck, Fred (Person)
- From the Collection: Welch, Chuck, 1948- (Person)
- From the Collection: Zack, David, 1938- (Person)
- From the Collection: Zelevansky, Paul (Person)
Conditions Governing Access
This collection is open for research.
Extent
From the Collection: 16.04 Linear Feet
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
Repository Details
Part of the University of Iowa Special Collections Repository
Special Collections Department
University of Iowa Libraries
Iowa City IA 52242 IaU
319-335-5921
319-335-5900 (Fax)
lib-spec@uiowa.edu