Happy Bicentennial.
Mimeographed illus. [12] leaves. 12mo (144 x 107 mm.), staple-bound. Amsterdam: Daylight Press, [1976].
A scarce artist’s book by Padín (b. 1939), published through Ulises Carrión’s roving Daylight Press because of stringent censorship in Uruguay. In this book, Padín, a mail artist and poet, directs his ire not at the military dictatorship controlling his home country, but at the American companies that continued to conduct business with Uruguay, despite sanctions instituted by the United States government.
In her examination of this book, Michaëla de Lacaze cogently writes: “After tearing open an envelope, the work’s first North American recipients might have... More