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Robin Crozier [Ed.]
1978
Sunderland: Self-published
Unpaginated [52 loose sheets]
31.5 × 23.5 cm

Robin Crozier was an artist whose engagement with mail art helped him overcome his relative isolation in the provincial city of Sunderland, UK, where he was teaching at the local university. Following his first artist’s book, Pages (1970), his drawings, collages, and concrete poetry “travelled” around the world through various assemblages. In 1975, he began producing mail art assemblages himself as soon as he had gathered 50 original contributions.


 


This particular collection features works by Geoffrey Young, Ben Vautier, Mieko Shiomi, Maurizio Nannucci, Paulo Bruscky, Bill Gaglione, and many others. This pantheon of artists, listed at the beginning of the assemblage, is followed by a short but moving dedication to the artists Clemente Padín and Jorge Caraballo, who did not respond to the call for submissions because they had been imprisoned by the Uruguayan dictatorship in 1977, following their participation in the first Mail Art show in Latin America:


 


“I dedicate this edition to our friends Clemente Padin and Jorge Caraballo who were imprisoned in September 1977 by the Uruguayan government. Are they still there? What is the view from their window?”


 


In 1978, Crozier invited Anna Banana and Bill Gaglione, then based in San Francisco, to visit Sunderland, where they performed their European touring show Future Sound.

Sunderland: Self-published
Unpaginated [52 loose sheets]
31.5 × 23.5 cm

Robin Crozier was an artist whose engagement with mail art helped him overcome his relative isolation in the provincial city of Sunderland, UK, where he was teaching at the local university. Following his first artist’s book, Pages (1970), his drawings, collages, and concrete poetry “travelled” around the world through various assemblages. In 1975, he began producing mail art assemblages himself as soon as he had gathered 50 original contributions.

 

This particular collection features works by Geoffrey Young, Ben Vautier, Mieko Shiomi, Maurizio Nannucci, Paulo Bruscky, Bill Gaglione, and many others. This pantheon of artists, listed at the beginning of the assemblage, is followed by a short but moving dedication to the artists Clemente Padín and Jorge Caraballo, who did not respond to the call for submissions because they had been imprisoned by the Uruguayan dictatorship in 1977, following their participation in the first Mail Art show in Latin America:

 

“I dedicate this edition to our friends Clemente Padin and Jorge Caraballo who were imprisoned in September 1977 by the Uruguayan government. Are they still there? What is the view from their window?”

 

In 1978, Crozier invited Anna Banana and Bill Gaglione, then based in San Francisco, to visit Sunderland, where they performed their European touring show Future Sound.

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Robin Crozier was an artist whose engagement with mail art helped him overcome his relative isolation in the provincial city of Sunderland, UK, where he was teaching at the local university. Following his first artist’s book, Pages (1970), his drawings, collages, and concrete poetry “travelled” around the world through various assemblages. In 1975, he began producing mail art assemblages himself as soon as he had gathered 50 original contributions.

 

This particular collection features works by Geoffrey Young, Ben Vautier, Mieko Shiomi, Maurizio Nannucci, Paulo Bruscky, Bill Gaglione, and many others. This pantheon of artists, listed at the beginning of the assemblage, is followed by a short but moving dedication to the artists Clemente Padín and Jorge Caraballo, who did not respond to the call for submissions because they had been imprisoned by the Uruguayan dictatorship in 1977, following their participation in the first Mail Art show in Latin America:

 

“I dedicate this edition to our friends Clemente Padin and Jorge Caraballo who were imprisoned in September 1977 by the Uruguayan government. Are they still there? What is the view from their window?”

 

In 1978, Crozier invited Anna Banana and Bill Gaglione, then based in San Francisco, to visit Sunderland, where they performed their European touring show Future Sound.

Sunderland: Self-published
Unpaginated [52 loose sheets]
31.5 × 23.5 cm

Robin Crozier was an artist whose engagement with mail art helped him overcome his relative isolation in the provincial city of Sunderland, UK, where he was teaching at the local university. Following his first artist’s book, Pages (1970), his drawings, collages, and concrete poetry “travelled” around the world through various assemblages. In 1975, he began producing mail art assemblages himself as soon as he had gathered 50 original contributions.

 

This particular collection features works by Geoffrey Young, Ben Vautier, Mieko Shiomi, Maurizio Nannucci, Paulo Bruscky, Bill Gaglione, and many others. This pantheon of artists, listed at the beginning of the assemblage, is followed by a short but moving dedication to the artists Clemente Padín and Jorge Caraballo, who did not respond to the call for submissions because they had been imprisoned by the Uruguayan dictatorship in 1977, following their participation in the first Mail Art show in Latin America:

 

“I dedicate this edition to our friends Clemente Padin and Jorge Caraballo who were imprisoned in September 1977 by the Uruguayan government. Are they still there? What is the view from their window?”

 

In 1978, Crozier invited Anna Banana and Bill Gaglione, then based in San Francisco, to visit Sunderland, where they performed their European touring show Future Sound.

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Robin Crozier was an artist whose engagement with mail art helped him overcome his relative isolation in the provincial city of Sunderland, UK, where he was teaching at the local university. Following his first artist’s book, Pages (1970), his drawings, collages, and concrete poetry “travelled” around the world through various assemblages. In 1975, he began producing mail art assemblages himself as soon as he had gathered 50 original contributions.

 

This particular collection features works by Geoffrey Young, Ben Vautier, Mieko Shiomi, Maurizio Nannucci, Paulo Bruscky, Bill Gaglione, and many others. This pantheon of artists, listed at the beginning of the assemblage, is followed by a short but moving dedication to the artists Clemente Padín and Jorge Caraballo, who did not respond to the call for submissions because they had been imprisoned by the Uruguayan dictatorship in 1977, following their participation in the first Mail Art show in Latin America:

 

“I dedicate this edition to our friends Clemente Padin and Jorge Caraballo who were imprisoned in September 1977 by the Uruguayan government. Are they still there? What is the view from their window?”

 

In 1978, Crozier invited Anna Banana and Bill Gaglione, then based in San Francisco, to visit Sunderland, where they performed their European touring show Future Sound.

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