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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.

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of 1970s British skinhead pulp novel writer Richard Allen and combine it with pornography, political agit-prop, and historical references to punk rock and avant-garde art.Wikipedia: "From 1982 to 1984, Home operated as a one-person-movement "Generation Positive", and having already founded a punk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...