Scope and Contents Istvan Kantor aka Monty Cantsin was the curator. He was born August 27, 1949, in Budapest and is a Canadian performance and video artist, industrial music and electropop singer, and founder of Neoism. In the 1970s, he studied medicine, but also participated in the underground arts scene of communist Budapest around Laszlo Beke as a folk singer. In 1976, he met the American prankster and Mail Artist David Zack at Art Club Budapest who then toured through Europe with his mail art collection. Zack encouraged Kantor to join him in America; Kantor emigrated via Paris to Montreal and, in 1978, lived one year with Zack and Blaster Al Ackerman in Portland, Oregon, encountering and working with artists from Mail Art and the industrial music scene. He was one of a couple of persons to whom Zack suggested to adopt the multiple identity Monty Cantsin, but only Kantor took this proposal seriously and adopted the Cantsin identity to the extent that it became chiefly associated with him....

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Provides both an historic background and a contemporary assessment of the Artist Book. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Curated by Wendy Woon. Nancy Tousley contributed an essay tracing the history of artists' books in Canada and the United States. Felipe Ehrenberg's essay describes his work as a book artist in England and Mexico. -- 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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Carrion provides explanations as to the reasons artists use rubber stamps. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This exhibition was curated by John Deumans. Anne Moeglin-Delcroix contributed an essay on contemporary artist-collectors. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.