thanks for site I love those old sf covers patrick trying to get more
pictures and less people explaining to me jig-------some of those
illustrations do bad things whilst trying to read in and out of focus!!!!
it would be good to have the 'ephemera' catalogue onlineI know the problems
but it would be great not to have to plod off to the ica ----
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From: Price, Richard <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Friday, November 22, 2002 5:50 PM
Subject: Re: ephemera
> Patrick - I know what you mean about expensive ephemera - and perhaps the
> exhibition catalogue is part of the institutional "fixing" of the fleeting
> to which I have mixed feelings (mixed, but by no means totally against;
the
> value *added by photo reproduction e.g. I sometimes think that Mondrian is
> better in reproduction than on the wall; again I think of the value *added
> by even footnotes nevermind biographical and social detail which I guess
the
> onlooker is then meant to back-infer in/from the Pure Artefact; Denise
> Riley's comment, from memory, about titles of paintings being the first
art
> criticism; the permeability of text and artefact).
>
> But also: try and borrow the book rather than buy it (I tend to read books
> I've borrowed more than I read ones I've bought). Though easier said than
> done, I know.
>
> Anyway - you might find the following site interesting, though it's
> US-biased; it gives a snappy account of mail art and zines:
> http://www.zinebook.com/resource/perkins.html
>
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