Rubber Vol 2, no 7 (Together with 8 documents)

George Brett, Henryk Bzdok, Linda McGreevy, Marie Combs, Ray Johnson, Al Souza, Aart Van Barneveld, et al.

Published by Stempelplaats July 1979, Amsterdam, 1979

About this Item

George Brett, Henryk Bzdok, Rubber Vol 2, no 7, Stempelplaats, Amsterdam, 1979, 16 pp. Rubber magazine with no binding as issued. Printed black and white with blue, brown and red rubber stamps. The publication reads in two directions one being the work of Henryk Bzdok, and the other being the work by George Brett. George Brett's contribution features his first day issue rubber stamps for OR Post 'The Parameters of mail art/ correspondence art are defined by the system which incorporates and processes mail art: the United States Postal Service. The postal service dictates the size limitations, partial content (or forbidden content) , and the costs, among other things. But the service also provides mail artists a model for imitation. The creation of specific postal systems in an obvious imitation of the larger system; OR Post is an example. OR Post is one segment of the ORGROUP, which originated in Amherst, Massachusetts. As with many 'movements' , its history is clouded.'Brett states that these commemorative stamps like the national post or system versions commit to memory, individual people or events in this project the stamp is a visualization of that person's mail art alias. Presumably the different contributors sent their designs for the OR Post stamp project and also how they wished to address and name to be listed. Contributors include: Ray Johnson, Al Souza, StempelPlaats, Marie Combs, Linda McGreevy, Pawel Petasz, Joni K. Miller, Leonhard Frank Duch, and others. Together with 8 hand stamped cards in different colours with type-written addresses from the Stempelplaats archive that were used for printing this issue (109 x 139 mm each). These 8 documents include contributions by: 'Dummyism' / Dr. Al Blaster, Joni K. Miller, 'Stempelplaats' / Aart van Barneveld, 'Grand Zeppelin' / Linda McGreevy, 'Der Baron' / Gerry Karlovec, Ray Johnson, Al Souza, 'Impress' / Steve Durland. No cards are signed, they are contained in an envelope by the printer.

Seller Inventory # 68770226

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Rubber Vol 2, no 7 (Together with 8 documents)
• Publisher: Stempelplaats July 1979, Amsterdam
• Publication Date: 1979
• Condition: Near fine