About Mail Art

Mail art is a worldwide cultural movement that began in the early 1960s and involves sending visual art (but also music, sound art, poetry, etc.) through the international postal system. Mail Art is also known as Postal Art or Correspondence Art. The term networking is often used to describe Mail Art activities, based on the principles of barter and equal one-to-one collaboration.



After a peak in popularity in the late 1980s and early 1990s, the Mail Art phenomenon has gradually migrated to the Internet, whose “social networks” were largely anticipated and predicted by the interactive processes of postal collaborations. Nevertheless, Mail Art is still practiced in the new Millennium by a loose planetary community involving thousands of mailartists from the most varied backgrounds.



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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mail_art

Εμφάνιση αναρτήσεων με ετικέτα UNITED KINGDOM. Εμφάνιση όλων των αναρτήσεων
Εμφάνιση αναρτήσεων με ετικέτα UNITED KINGDOM. Εμφάνιση όλων των αναρτήσεων

To Stripy Goose - London, UNITED KINGDOM.


To Scott Thomson - Hounslow, UNITED KINGDOM.


To Sarah Churchill - UNITED KINGDOM.


To Roshelle Cunningham - York, UNITED KINGDOM.