Details on recto, handwritten address on reverse. Postcard, mailed. Milan: Daniel Templon, 1974.

Postcard addressed to famed gallerist John Weber, it announces an Art-Language exhibition at Daniel Templon’s Milan gallery. The group showed with Templon on a number of occasions in the 70s.

In fine condition; a most interesting example of exhibition ephemera mailed between important galleries.

❧ Julie Verlaine, Daniel Templon: Une Histoire de l’art contemporain (2016), p. 394.

Michael Lailach, ed., Printed Matter: Die Sammlung Marzona in der Kunstbibliothek (2005), p. 90. More

Single A4 sheet with brown paper seal for mailing, horizontal folds. Amsterdam: 1975.

A famous Beau Geste Press flyer repurposed as a mailed invitation for the group’s 1975 Other Books and So exhibition. Ulises Carrión forged a close relationship with Felipe Ehrenberg and Martha Hellion, co-founders of the Devon-based small artist-run press. In 1973, he published two artist’s books with Beau Geste Press: Arguments and Tras la Poesía. Carrión also learned first-hand about printing processes, in particular mimeography, which he employed frequently in later years. With the opening of Other Books and So in Amsterdam, Carrión soon became one of... More

Ink on paper (both manuscript & stamped), multi-colored stickers, hand-numbered pagination. 24 pp. 12mo (121 x 106 mm.), orig. white paper wrappers, single green sticker on upper wrapper, artist’s name stamped and “C. Van Den Bosch” written on lower wrapper, staple-bound & black cloth tape over spine. [Amsterdam: ca. 1973-74].

An exciting discovery: Carrión’s stamped and manuscript maquette for what became his scarcest editioned bookwork. The artist’s final book published by In-Out Productions (edition of just 10 copies), Speeds consists of rubber-stamped circles representing red, yellow, and green traffic signals and alternating stamped text — “stop,” “wait,” “go” — stretching... More

Amsterdam: 1977.

The black version of this postcard distributed by Ulises Carrión for his Definitions of art exhibition, held at Other Books and So in March 1977. Recipients were asked to respond with their definition of art on the verso. Carrión received 367 answers, which were all displayed in the artist’s bookshop.

From the recto: “A show called ‘Definitions of art’ will be held at OTHER BOOKS AND SO Herengracht 227 Amsterdam from 1st March to 26th March 1977. Everybody is invited to participate, regardless of profession, sex, age, etc. […]

“Just write your definition (of what art is) on... More

70 pp. Small 4to (210 x 160 mm.), pictorial semi-stiff wrappers, title on spine. Amsterdam: VOID distributors, 1980.

The essential compendium of Ulises Carrión’s polemical essays; printed in an edition of 500 by Hetty Huisman’s VOID Distributors. His trailblazing theories and beliefs about artists’ books and mail art remain influential to this day. “The New Art of Making Books,” first published in Plural no. 41 (1975), is frequently cited by contemporary book artists.

The book includes his most important essays: “The New Art of Making Books,” “From Bookworks to Mailworks,” “Rubber Stamp Theory and Praxis,” “Rubber Stamp Art,” “Mail Art... More

Color illus. throughout. 344 pp. Large 4to, softcover. London: Reaktion Books, 2012.

An essential book on artists engaging with the postcard. Jeremy Cooper is one of the greatest collectors of artists’ postcards. As new. More

Black & white portrait, printed on one side only. Folded sheet, stamped on verso. Amsterdam: 1978.

Rare program for a performance by Anna Banana (b. 1940) and Bill Gaglione (b. 1943) at Other Books and So’s second location (259 Herengracht). Carrión’s bookshop–cum–gallery closed several months later, and this was one of the final performances held there. The program lists nine acts for the duo’s performances and the verso bears the shop’s stamp in blue ink. Fine.

❧ Catalogue 237: Ulises Carrión (2022), p. 181. More

vii, 145 pp. 4to, semi-stiff printed wrappers, black tape over spine & stapled. Dallas: Dallas Public Library, 1986.

An essential reference for the study of mail art.

“Over 1300 mail art shows from 1970 to 1985 are listed by theme, organizer, place, number of participants, and resultant documentation…”–John Held, Jr., ed., Mail Art: An Annotated Bibliography (1991) 21.

Fine. More

Black & white and color illus. throughout. Unpaginated. 4to (293 x 231 mm.), pictorial softcover (spine a trifle rubbed), title on spine. Los Angeles: Otis Art Institute, 1977.

One of 1000 copies, scarce On Kawara exhibition catalogue for his first solo museum presentation in the United States. It opens with Lucy R. Lippard’s essay on Kawara’s practice “Just in Time: On Kawara.” Most of the catalogue reproduces parts of the artist’s journal, where he recorded the color, size, and title of each “Date Painting.” The journal entries are complemented by five street photographs by Jun Morinaga. Near the end of... More

Illus. throughout. 143 pp. 4to, green printed covers, title on spine. Birmingham: Ikon Gallery; Dijon: Le Consortium, 2007.

Scarce On Kawara catalogue, published after the exhibition that toured to all of the cities in the title. With a foreword (“Clockwise”) by curator Jonathan Watkins. It contains extensive installation photographs and reproductions of ephemera made for each location.

Fine. More

Color illus. throughout. 256 pp. Large & thick 4to (275 x 225 mm.), blue pictorial hardcover. Rotterdam: Museum Boymans-van Beuningen, 1991.

A fine copy of this On Kawara exhibition catalogue, with many illustrations of the artist’s “Date Paintings,” postcards, and telegrams. With text contributions by Karel Schampers (“Een mentale reis in de tijd”), Anne Rorimer (“The Date Paintings of On Kawara”), and Teresa O’Connor (“Notes: On Kawara’s I Am Still Alive”).

This exhibition was subsequently held at the Deichtorhallen, Hamburg (12 March-10 May 1992); Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (21 November 1992-7 February 1993); and Museum of Modern Art, San... More

Many black & white illus. 30 long vertical sheets (ca. 430 x 282 mm.), printed on rectos only, stapled at head. [From final sheet]: San Francisco: August 2003.

A scarce Leiber catalogue (no. 42), offering 289 items of mail art, visual poetry, artists’ books and publications, exhibition catalogues, and rare ephemera; produced in an edition of ca. 100 copies. This profusely illustrated catalogue imitates Allan Kaprow’s DAYS OFF: A Calendar of Happenings, a commission by the Junior Council of the Museum of Modern Art, created in 1970.

Each page focuses on a particular theme or presents works by an individual... More