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I work inRare Books & Special Collectionsat the University of Notre Dame's Hesburgh Library. My current project is cataloguing a collection ofMail Artacquired from the estate of Russian artistVagrich Bakhchanyan. Highlights enclosed here, & maybe other examples of Arte Postale.

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"Hommage a Joseph Beuys" [1989] --- catalogue of exhibition. A5 saddle-stapled booklet, sealed with brass pins, with postcard layout on rear cover.

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"AFTER DADISM FLUXISM MAILISM COMES TOURISM"

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S.I.N.EWS, a bulletin of s.i.n. #2 [1983] --- mail art periodical edited by Vittore Baroni.

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Mail Art - Campaign '88.

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Commonpress #55, John Held Jr. [1984] --- from the envelope.

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Cereal and Sugar-Coated Ideology [1997] --- flyer for a multimedia performance by Gordon Simpson at that haven of mail art, Printed Matter Inc. in NYC.

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Commonpress #47, Cracker Jack Kid [Chuck Welch] (Omaha, NE) [1982] --- founded by Pawel Petasz in 1977, Commonpress was a mail art mainstay. A different editor/compiler facilitates each issue through the eternal network. For this issue, contributors were asked to send in 2-sq-ft of fabric from old clothing. The paper & folder were handmade by Welch from the pulped fabric he received, hence the subtitle "Material Metamorphosis" for the issue. Let this be: EVIDENCE OF TRANSITION.

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Unknown sender.......... Style possibly consistent w/ Tania Erlij?

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Beautiful art book things going on in Special Collections at Notre Dame's Hesburgh Library.

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Unknown sender! (Russian?) --- doctor's prescription sheet from USSR. Green rubber stamp of strange figure in a style similar to that of Lon Spiegelman.

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Unknown sender??? (Italy???)

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Unknown sender (Eugene, OR) [1981].

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The Mail ‪#‎artwork‬ from USA of Russel Manning it’s arrived for NO EXPO International Mail Art Call

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ZONA [Bernard Banville] (Greenfield, MA) [1983] — the neodada of ZONA, prolific maker of handcut rubber stamp portraits, including Bakhchanyan himself (see image #3).

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Edgardo-Antonio Vigo (Buenos Aires, Argentina) [1983] --- belated tribute.

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Edgardo-Antonio Vigo (Buenos Aires, Argentina) [1980] --- "PAZ"/peace artist stamps, edition 106.

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Kanako Tsutsui (Osaka, Japan) [1988] --- here comes a cutie in the mail.