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Mail Art: Buster Cleveland, Ukiah, California to Vagrich Bakhchanyan, New York, New York, circa 1983 November 2

 File — Box: 9, Folder: 599
Identifier: MSE/REE 0006-599

Scope and Contents

Large artist-made postcard (24 x 19 cm). Collage of magazine cutours of cars, cheese, and classical religious art. Laminated in ribbed plastic in geometric pattern. Rubber stamps in black ink on reverse: "FAKE", "MIRAGE", "MY ART BELONGS TO DADA", "MAIL ART", "DADA IS A NICE WORD FOR ANARCHY", neo-dada design of cow divided into different sections with names of neo-dada mail artists. Artist stamp depicting Buster Cleveland with Andy Warhol, and Guglielmo Achille Cavellini. Birth and death dates for the 3 artists imply that will each live for exactly 100 years (Warhol 1928-2028, Cleveland 1943-2043, Cavellini 1914-2014). "MAIL ART INTERNATIONAL 1982 - POST CENTS 333".

Dates

  • Creation: circa 1983 November 2

Conditions Governing Access

There are no access restrictions on this collection.

Language of Materials

English

Russian

Physical Description

1 postcard

Repository Details

Part of the University of Notre Dame Rare Books & Special Collections Repository

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