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This book is an in-depth, densely illustrated, presentation of international contemporary artists books with an emphasis on Brazilian artists. At the end of this book, the editor prints interviews of Lenir de Miranda, Neide Dias de Sa, Wlademir Dias Pino, Vera Chaves Barcellos, Iolanda Gollo Mazzotti, and Anna Moeglin-Delcroix regarding their views on artist books. Enzo Miglietta and Paulo Bruscky contribute essays on their philosophy and on book objects, respectively. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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...

Scope and Contents This is a well illustrated, historical survey of avante-garde cultural, art and political magazines and journals from the early 20th century to the present day. The magazines covered in this book include the following: Acephele, Alphabet and Image, Approches, Arcade, Argentzia, L'Art Brut, Aspen, Avant Garde, Baseline, Bief, Bit, Bizarre, Blast, TheBlindman, Bloc, Broom, Bulletin Dada, CA, Cahiers Dada Surrealisme, Cannibale, Cie, Club Dada, Le Coeur a Barbe, El Corno Emplumado, Dada, Der Dada, Dadaphone, Documenta-Sud, Dianamo-Futurista, Dyn, The East Village Other, L'Elan, Emigre, The Enemy, Evergreen Review, Eye, Fetish, Fluxus, Futura, Le Futurisme, Gazeta Futuristov, Geiger, Helix, Hot Lava, Huh, Information, Integral, Interview, L'Italia Futuristi, Jugend, K: Revue de las Poesie, KYW, Lava, The Little Review, Los Angeles Free Press, Mad, Der Malik, Maus, Mecano, Merz, Minotaure, Le Mot, Neon, Neue Jugend, New York Dada, The Next Call, Noi, Novyi Lef, Het Overzicht, Oz, Pan,...