The World Has Been Empty Since the Postcard (Paperback)

Simon Cutts

ISBN 10: 1946433403 / ISBN 13: 9781946433404

Published by Ugly Duckling Presse, New York, 2020

About this Item

Paperback. The World Has Been Empty Since the Postcard reproduces fourteen postcards of a polemical nature by writer, artist, designer, and publisher of Coracle Press, Simon Cutts. The authors commentary on the context of the production of these ephemeral works and on the nature of their riposte, critique, and satire puts forward an episodic theory of the form and function of the postcard as a means of critical response. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The World Has Been Empty Since the Postcard (Paperback)
• Publisher: Ugly Duckling Presse, New York
• Publication Date: 2020
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1946433403
• ISBN 13: 9781946433404
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: new

About this title

Synopsis

Literary Nonfiction. Fourteen postcards of a polemical nature, reproduced with footnote commentary, riposte, critique, satire, as a means of critical response in the form and function of the postcard, over the years. This is the second 'volume' of such responses, the first being published in revue-form in France in 2011.

About the Author

Simon Cutts is a writer, artist, designer and publisher. He is the author of many books of poetry (among them Quelques Pianos and Seepages from Jargon Society) and countless artists books and ephemeral print works. He founded Coracle Press in London in the mid-seventies. Now based in Ireland, Simon and his partner Erica Van Horn continue to produce and publish artist's books, postcards, and books of poetry. His collection of talks and writings on small press and artist's book publishing are collected in Some Forms of Availability published in 2007 by Granary Books and RGAP.