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This piece of correspondence art, created in 1988 by Gerard Barbot, combines a rainbow gradient with a dull brown reminiscent of very old newspapers. Placed onto a stark black background, the overall effect is neat and orderly in color, the clippings…

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Carol Schneck’s Mail Art is Disposable Art (c. 1988) is a standard-size black and white postcard collage in the John Held Papers at the Archives of American Art. A photocopied picture of New York’s iconic Whitney Museum is pictured protruding out of…

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Leonhard Frank Duch, who currently works and resides in Berlin, has been involved in mail art since 1975. A primary aim of mail art is to dissociate itself from institutions. Many artists value openness, allowing participants to contribute freely in…
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