Arte Correo

Mauricio Marcin

• Other Authors Maris Bustamante (Contributor), Ulises Carrión (Contributor), Felipe Ehrenberg (Contributor), Cesar Espinosa (Contributor), Daniel Garza Usabiaga (Contributor), Verónica Gerber (Contributor), Jennifer Josten (Contributor), Marcos Kurtycz (Contributor), Fernanda Noueira (Contributor), Manuel Marín (Contributor), Mónica Mayer (Contributor), Araceli Zuniga (Contributor)
• Title

  Arte Correo

• Date 2011
• ISBN 8415118163
• Publisher Barcelona, Spain: RM
• Description 269 p; 10.5 in; color ill.
• Language Spanish
• Collections Permanent Collection, MoMA Reading Room
• Summary

  This book brings together the most important research on Mail Art in Mexico and its connections with the world. Research in over fifteen public and private archives of different artists and institutions, fueled this publication, a map of the mail art movement during its boom years—that is, 1960, 1970 and 1980. Arte Correo makes visible the communications network that this art made possible between countries where political regimes censored and limited freedom of expression and the free movement of ideas. The novelty of mail art lies in the intention of distributing art from person to person, using a channel devoid of intermediaries such as critics, galleries, curators and historians. Through letters, posters, drawings, photographs, calligrams, collages, stamps, stamps and the same envelopes and postcards, intervened and converted into artistic objects by the senders. The book contains unpublished works by Mathias Goeritz, Pedro Friedeberg, Felipe Ehrenberg, Clemente Padín, Diether Rot, Marcos Kurtycz, Black Hen Powder, and hundreds of artists from five continents. 

• Tags Contemporary art, Spanish language, Art, MoMA Reading Room, Mail art, Mexican art -- 21st century