Mail Art: Zona [Bernard Banville], Greenfield, Massachusetts to Vagrich Bakhchanyan, New York, New York, CIRCA 1983 August 15
Scope and Contents
Cover ornamented with rubber stamps in red ink: red star, sender's return address. Rubber stamp in brown ink: retangle frame with "SEPIA DRAWING MADE FROM". Rubber stamps in black ink: square frames with dotted images of breasts on front, and square frames with striped images of eyes on reverse. Postage stamp perforations cut around black stamps. Letter "N" stamped in red ink on breast stamps. "ILLEGAL FLUX OR THE N-TITY" handwritten in black ink under breast stamps. Small saddle-stapled booklet enclosed. "ZONARTIFACT", VOID, contains collage and text erasure art. 4 1/2"x5" sheet enclosed. Collage of text and striped image of an eye, invitation to contribute to future issues of VOID, to be done "IN COLLABORATION WITH OTHER N...TITIES". Originally folded into a triangle. Tag enclosed. Folded newspaper with holes punched through, tied closed with white thread, tag with striped image of an eye attached to thread. Rubber stamp in black ink: "FOR FIELD USE ONLY". 2 slips enclosed. Newspaper fragments with striped images of eyes printed over both sides.
Dates
- Creation: CIRCA 1983 August 15
Conditions Governing Access
There are no access restrictions on this collection.
Language of Materials
English
Russian
Physical Description
1 cover; 5 enclosures
Repository Details
Part of the University of Notre Dame Rare Books & Special Collections Repository