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Correspondence art

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 1835 Collections and/or Records:

Ensembles 1968-1992 / Oppermann, Anna., 2007

 Item
Identifier: CC-51867-72967
Scope and Contents

What is an ensemble? Oppermann replies … -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2007

Envelope: A Postcard / Filliou, Robert., 1976

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Identifier: CC-12645-12877
Scope and Contents

The airmail envelope has been printed to resemble a postcard. Also, designated Ecart's postcards No.3. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1976

Envelopes: A Puzzling Journal Through the Royal Mail / Russell, Harriet ; Truss L., 2005

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Identifier: CC-44430-46579
Scope and Contents

The author addressed several envelopes to herself through the Royal Mail Service with disguised addresses and 120 arrived, 10 did not. 75 envelopes appear in this book. The envelope addresses depicted in this book would challenge anyone and how the mail service delivered them is an immense tribute to them. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2005

Envoi Postal du 12-6-1979 / Corfou, Michel., 1979

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Identifier: CC-18554-18926
Scope and Contents

The card depicts a black & white image of an artist envleope. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1979

E.O.N. Archive Share-Piece, 1996

 Item — Box Artist Boxed Materials/Oversized: Baroni, Vittore: [Barcode: 31858072491123]
Identifier: CC-28659-29959
Scope and Contents Baroni explains this work in Arte Postale! No.74. He relates that he discovered mail art in 1977 and estimates that he exchanged a total of 32,850 mail art pieces. Since he found that he had insufficient space in his house to manage this material, he devised a scheme to turn the archive into a series of modular art pieces, ready to be hung flat or stored as an art book. The 32,850 mailings divided by 24 gives 1368 share-pieces, each arranged on a signed and numbered modular panel that includes 24 mail art letters tied with a red ribbon from the Ethereal Open Network (E.O.N.), a big color sticker with an enlarged networker statement (all different), a photo of the E.O.N. archive files, and one original mail art piece. The envelopes are tied with a ribbon and hot sealed in a plastic transparent folder, then mounted on a ready-to-hang cardboard folder. This finished product differs from Baroni's original description, viz., the sticker is absent and the letters are tied with a blue...
Dates: 1996

Eredeti Belyes A II Pornografia ciuui sogorotbol / Biro, Jozsef., 1998

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Identifier: CC-30880-32332
Scope and Contents

Collage depicts images of nude women overlaid with Hungarian text. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1998

Essence: International Networking Culture / Held Jjr ; Finlay E ; Welch C ; spence p ; Groh K ; Tipping R ; Cleveland B ; Padin C ; Stake C ; Petasz P ; Cohen R ; Gaglione B ; Morandi E ; Dogfish ; Strada G ; Tisma A ; Dellafiora D ; Kamperelic D ; Kamperelic R ; Collins P ; Bogdanovic N ; Blurr B ; Barbot G ; A1 Waste Paper ; Bates K ; Baroni V ; Maggi R ; Ruch G ; Crozier R ; Segay S., 1995

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Identifier: CC-29547-30915
Scope and Contents

The exhibition was organized by Neil Degney around the theme of Shozo Shimamoto's B'book Burning Edict." One hundred participants from 22 countries sent networking material for the exhibition. The works consisted of correspondence art and personal statements. "Essence reveals both a universal personkind and a global divergence of ideas and circumstance." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1995

Est-ce Vrai Vous / Corfou, Michel., 1984

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Identifier: CC-18829-19207
Scope and Contents

The title of the work appears in negative relief in typewritten x's. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1984

Eternal Network: A Mail Art Anthology / Welch, Chuck, editor ; Friedman K ; Brown J ; Held Jjr ; Phillpot C ; Varney E ; Banana A ; Pittore-Eurofico C ; Cole D ; Milman E ; Bleus G ; Petasz P ; Nikonova R ; Hoffberg J ; Shimamoto S ; Fricker HR ; Kostelanetz R ; Padin C ; Jacob JP ; Sackner MA ; Sackner RK ; Home S ; Baroni V ; Frank J ; Porter B ; Marx GG ; Jackson L ; Gordon C ; Higgins D ; Mittendorf H ; Tisma A ; Cassidy T ; Gahlinger-Beaune R ; Otto Me ; Francois C ; Welch C ; Otto M ; Mitropoulos M ; Okwabi A ; DeSirey J ; Dodge C ; Cunning S ; Filliou R ; Halliday A ; Rosenberg MR ; Marlow W ; Mittendorf H., 1995

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Identifier: CC-00610-624
Scope and Contents

This is the first university press pubication to explore the historical roots, aesthetics, and new directions of contemporary mail art in essays by prominent, international mail art networkers from five continents. Includes numerous photographs of mailed artifacts,performance events, congresses, stampsheets, posters, collages, artists' books, visual poetry, computer art, mail art zines, copy art and rubberstamped images. The Sackner Archive is identified as a major resource for Mail Art. The contibutors listed in this record wrote essays or poems and are listed in the Table of Contents. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1995

eternity sontikue, 2010

 Item — Box 337: [Barcode: 31858072491198]
Identifier: CC-52001-73103
Scope and Contents

McMurtagh resides in San Diego, California; presumably this collaboration took place through the mail. Each page depicts three elements, e.g., a single outline of a large letter by McMurtagh that is embellished with adjacent small calligraphic markings by Bennett and a printed text by one of the poets below. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2010