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Artists’ Postcards by Jeremy Cooper
• the first detailed description of artists’ creation and use of postcards, from 1900 to the present day
• features 400 actual-size images of postcards by many well-known artists including Rachel Whiteread, Ellsworth Kelly, Gilbert and George, David Hockney, Joseph Beuys, Dieter Roth and Tacita Dean, the majority of which are published here for the first time
• taps into the increasing interest in the art world and elsewhere in artists’ postcards
Over the last twenty years an increasing number of artists have turned to expressing themselves through postcards. Whether by way of installation, collage, addition to, or alteration of existing postcards, or the production of postcards themselves, many prominent artists employ the medium in some form. Artists such as Rachel Whiteread, whose postcard pieces were exhibited at the Hammer Museum and at Tate Modern in 2010; Ellsworth Kelly with his colour collage explorations; Francis Alÿs for whom postcards often remain the principal public record of his work; and Gilbert and George who have made over a thousand postcard works.
In Artists’ Postcards: A Compendium Jeremy Cooper traces the origin of artists’ fascination with postcards from the 1900s to the present, revealing the significant number of artists who made artworks in postcard form. The Surrealists and later many conceptual artists, as well as the Fluxus group were all attracted to postcards. This book includes an array of historical and contemporary postcards by artists such as Raoul Hausmann, David Hockney, Richard Hamilton, Susan Hiller, Joseph Beuys, Ben Vautier, Dieter Roth, Claes Oldenburg, Andy Warhol, Ray Johnson, Gordon Matta-Clark, Gavin Turk, Tacita Dean and Martin Parr. Some of these artists were participants in ‘Mail Art’, others manipulated or made collages out of postcards and some printed or painted their own postcard concepts. Artists’ Postcards is intended to be both read and looked at by anyone with a general interest in the arts, as well as by dedicated artists, postcard collectors, graphic designers, advertising specialists and all those interested in the historical background to a previously unexplored subject.
Jeremy Cooper is a writer, journalist and broadcaster who has written and published widely on art and antiques. He has appeared regularly on bbc’s Antiques Roadshow, was co-presenter of Radio 4’s The Week’s Antiques, and is the author of four novels.
£35.00 hb publ Oct 2011
