Scope and Contents Dust jacket: Over the last twenty years an increasing number of artists have turned to expressing themselves through postcards. Whether by way of installation, collage, addition to, or alteration of existing postcards, or the production of postcards themselves, many prominent artists employ the medium in some form. Artists' Postcards traces the origin of artists' fascination with postcards from the early 1900s but with a focus on the contemporary, revealing the significant number of artists who have made creative and unusual artworks in postcard form. With 400 images of postcards created by many well-known artists, Artists' Postcards is the first critical guide to the subject. From surrealists to Fluxus and conceptual artists, this book includes an array of historical and contemporary postcards by such artists as George Grosz, Bruce Nauman, Richard Long, David Hockney, Richard Hamilton, Susan Hiller, Joseph Beuys, Ben Vautier, Dieter Roth, Ray Johnson, Gordon Matta-Clark, Gavin...

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Provides pictures and comments of selected artist magazines as complete runs. Those held in part or in total by the Sackner Archive include the following: 0 to 9, Art For UM, Artpolice, Control Magazine, Culture Hero, Decollage, Diagonal Cero, File, Vile, Gesammelte Werke, KWY, Mela, Revue Nul=0, Revue Integration, Spur. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.