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An interview with Dean who publishes a small mag, Arthur Cravan, discusses Craven's life and work and also includes a bibliography. Bruno Richard, who publishes "Elles Sont de Sortie" discusses correspondence art, rubberstamp art and Ray Johnson. He classifies zines into the following categories: found art; hybrid; assembling and multiple origins. John Held Jr., who publishes Bibliozine describes International Mail Art. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Wharton Hood is non-de-plume of jw curry. This book is a photocopied compilation of his correspondence by Hood and his respondents. This volume deals mainly with material received by Hood for writing conferences and small press zines. It was published in probably less than 10 copies. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents Discusses Art Strike of 1990-1993 and reproduces Neoist manifestos. tewart Home (born 1962, London) is an English artist, filmmaker, writer, pamphleteer, art historian, and activist. He is best known for his novels such as the non-narrative 69 Things To Do With A Dead Princess (2002), his re-imagining of the 1960s in Tainted Love (2005), and earlier parodistic pulp fictions Pure Mania, Red London, No Pity, Cunt, and Defiant Pose that pastiche the work of 1970s British skinhead pulp novel writer Richard Allen and combine it with pornography, political agit-prop, and historical references to punk rock and avant-garde art.Wikipedia: "From 1982 to 1984, Home operated as a one-person-movement "Generation Positive", and having already founded a punk band called White Colours (named after an experimental novel by R. D. Reeve) in 1980, he started a new group with the same name in 1982. He also published an art fanzine SMILE, the name of which was a play on the Mail Art zines FILE and VILE...