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Plain cover. 1 sheet enclosed. Yellow paper, typewritten letter from Masami Mochida, Director of Tama City Public Hall in Tama, Japan. Invitation to contribute to a mail art exhibition as part of the Art Fest in Tama '85, theme: "107.517.6". Deadline July 31 1985, exhibition runs August 9 - September 1 1985.

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Cord-bound booklet. Catalog from the "First Isreal Mail Art Show" at the Janco-Dada Museum in Ein-Hod, Israel, running July - October 1985. Includes texts in Hebrew and English, reproductions of works, and a list of participants.

Scope and Contents Materials related to "Airmail Eros", an international mail art exhibition on the theme of "Love and Eroticism", held at the Center for Contemporary Arts in Santa Fe, New Mexico, from November 15 - December 13 1985. Postcard. Pink card, image of topless female figure sitting in a cane armchair, with a male face. Flyer for exhibition. US Half Letter saddle-stapled booklet. Catalog of Airmail Eros exhibition, including reproductions of works, and a list of participants. US Letter sheet....

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Plain cover. Sheet enclosed. Invitation to participate in an international mail art exhibition "The Universe", deadline December 31 1985, exhibition date unknown. A4 sheet enclosed. Invitation to participate in an international mail art exhibition "The Whole Word is a Theatre 2", deadline December 31 1985, to be held at The Theatre Gallery in Poland, date of exhibition unknown. Both exhibitions organised by Fredo Ojda.

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Plain cover. Folded sheet enclosed. Flyer with hand-drawn art for the exhibition at Liget Galéria in Budapest, Hungary. Paper slip enclosed. List of dates and locations for the travelling exhibition, organised by J.P. Jacob (see Folder: 983).

Scope and Contents Postcard. Print collage of type and images in red ink. Handcuffed hand holding a comically large pencil, partially deflated inflatable globe at the other end of the handcuff chain. Type in different styles and sizes, including digital clock display: "le bagne c'est les autres" (the prison is other people). Invitation to participate in a mail art exhibition in Toulon on the theme: "Prison is made of the others". A4 saddle-stapled booklet. Catalog of the exhibition, running June 18 - July 11...

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Bifolium with integral address plate. Flyer for an international exhibition of mail art titled "Dedicato ad un panino" (dedicated to a sandwich), at Sibaria in Genoa, Italy, June 3-16 1986. List of participants within.

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Collage of street scene in dotted pop-art style in blue ink, with pencil in yellow ink. Invitation on reverse to participate in a mail art exhibition celebrating the 25th birthday of the Cultury Office of Salon de Provence, France. Deadline April 30 1987, exhibition May 1987.

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Plain cover. Sheet enclosed. Typewritten letter from Péter Kovács, director of the István Király Múzeum in Székesfehérvár, Hungary. Invitation to participate in an exhibition of artists' books, deadline July 31 1987, exhibition October 17 - November 30 1987.

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Self-mailer, ornamented with hand-drawn envelope, and simplified map of Spain and Portugal, in red and green paint. Invitation to participate in a mail art exhibition in Oporto, Portugal, in protest against nuclear arms and the Aldeadávila nuclear waste disposal site in Spain near the Portuguese border. Deadline November 1 1987, date of exhibition unknown.

Scope and Contents Postcard. Print of Joseph Beuys in signature hat. Invitation to contribute postcard-szied works to an exhibition in homage to Beuys. A5 saddle-stapled booklet with integral address plate on reverse. Same print of Beuys on front cover. List of dates and venues for travelling exhibition on reverse: November 4-19 1988 at Galerie d'Art Contemporain in La Valette-du-Var, France; March 13-31 1989 at Fort Napolean in La Seyne-sur-Mer, France; April 20 - May 19 1989 at the Institut Français in...

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School photograph of young children altered with colored marker. Invitation to participate in the "second international mail art exhibit" at the Kent Library in Kent, Washington. Postcard material preferred, deadline September 16 1988, exhibited October 4-28 1988.

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Large bold text design. Call for mail art submissions to the exhibition "because of the 800th anniversary of the Hamburg harbour", organised by Emil Schlemm, Wolfgang Scholz, and Inken Rohr, deadline December 31 1988. Exhibition and catalogue in 1989, exact dates unknown.

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Text in Portuguese and English. Invitation to participate in a mail art exhibition at the Empresa de Correios e Telégragos in Belo Horizonte, Brazil.

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Saddle-stapled booklet. Cartoon postal delivery workers on foot and bicycle on front cover. Catalog of exhibition at Casa do Olhar in Santo André, Brazil. Includes text in Protuguese and English, reproduction of works, and list of participatns.

Scope and Contents Materials related to Havana '95 International Mail Art Show at the National Museum of Beaux-Arts in Havana, Cuba, from. Cover ornamented with rubber stamps in green ink: postage stamp design with man riding a bird, and sender's return address. 1 sheet enclosed. Invitation to participate in exhibition, deadline December 31 1994, printed in green ink. Saddle-stapled booklet with integral address plate. Catalog of exhibition, including texts in Spanish and English, reproductions of works, and...

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Invitation to participate in an exhibition "investigating the concepts & trategies involved in the publication" of magazines. Deadline March 1 1996, to be exhibited at SUBSPACE in Iowa City in 1996 (exact date unknown).

Scope and Contents Materials related to events taking place as part of Fluxus Fest 96. Cover ornamented with rubber stamps in blue ink: rectangular design with "FLUXUS" and "PACIFIC RIM", return address for "STAMP ART GALLERY" in San Francisco. US Letter sheet enclosed. Glossy white paper, press release advertising a book launch for Stamp Art Gallery publications at Printed Matter's premises in New York City, 6-8pm on May 28 1996. US Letter sheet enclosed. Metallic silver paper, names of Fluxus members all...

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Photograph of a man speaking at a lectern before a large picture of General Mills Whole Grain Wheaties cereal on front. Invitation to a multimedia performance by Gordon Simpson titled "Cereal and Sugar-Coated Ideology", presented by Printed Matter at their premises in New York City.

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Collage of torn and reassembled photograph of people at a table drinking with rainbow-colored text "The Bay Area Dadists" on front. Invitation on reverse to an exhibition at Printed Matter's premises in New York City, curated by John Held Jr., presented by The New York Correspondence School of San Francisco, and Daddaland. Opening reception January 15 1999, running until March 6 1999. Ray Johnson contributions to Bay Area Dada publications coincide with his Whitney Museum Retrospective.

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Small stapled booklet. Green paper, handwritten and drawn catalog of participants in an exhibition of matchbox art, held at "Five Towers Micro Hall" in Augustfehn, Germany, organized by Klaus Groh (see Folder: 714-5).

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Folded A4 sheet. Collage of humorously grotesque gargoyles from the New College, Oxford. Hand-written letter from Paula Claire at the International Concrete Poetry Archive in Oxford, England (see also Folder: 1004). Thanks Bakhchanyan for the postcards he sent, and requests more information about his work.

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Business envelope from FBSP. A4 sheet enclosed. Typewritten letter from Walter Zanini informing Bakhchanyan that his work has been received.

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Folded A4 sheet. Letter from Paula Claire (see also Folder: 1002) informing Bakhchanyan that the ICPA Catalogue 2 will be published in the second half of 1982.

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Cover ornamented with rubber stamps in purple ink: seal of the Civica Scuola Femminile, "STAMPE", and sender's return address. Rubber stamp in red ink: seal of the Commune di Genova (Genoa). Sheet enclosed. Photocopy of report that Bakhchanyan's work has been received for an exhibition "communicating 'with art'" at the Duchess Gallery at the Civica Scuola Femminile.

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Letter from A.O. Mwarikos of Mwarikos Art Gallery in Moshi, Tanzania. The art gallery burned down, and Mwarikos is seeking donations from artists.

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Plain cover. US Letter sheet enclosed. Typewritten letter from George Myers Jr. communicating progress in the publication of a project called Alphabets Sublime, and assurance that he will continue promoting Bakhchanyan's work. US Letter sheet enclosed. Blue paper, mail order form for art magazine Cumberland, published by Myers.

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Business envelope from the museum, addressed to Irene Bakhchanyan, not Vagrich. A4 sheet enclosed. Letter from Felix Stundika, informing that he is leaving his position as curator of the museum's poster collection. 12 1/2"x5 3/4" card enclosed. Flyer for an exhibition of posters from China called "Typo China", May 3 - August 4 2006.

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US Letter sheet. Typewritten letter from Martha Wilson, executive director at Franklin Furnace, thanking Bakhchanyan for the donation of an issue of his periodical ARM NEWS, and asking for more copies to use in exhibitions. Hand-written note added by Steve Whitesell, archivist, informing Bakhchanyan that the hope to display his work in a show of Eastern European artists next year.

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Issue compiled by Guy Bleus. Perfect-bound book, 141pp. Contains texts exploring mail art etymologically and as object, and a retrospective of Commonpress issues by former and current coordinators Pawel Petasz and Gerald Jupitter-Larsen. Catalogue references 4 accompanying microfiches with 800 A4 pages of mail art by participants.