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Paul Di Filippo
Sometimes magnificent visual art takes root in the humblest of soils.Advertisements painted on old barns, tattoos, fruit crate labels, hot rod embellishments -- all these media and many other non-galleried forms have hosted and fostered esthetic delights that satisfy any rigorous definition of art. In Jeremy Cooper's expansive, eye-popping history of the humble postcard in the hands of artists, appropriately titled Artists' Postcards,
we see that this small pasteboard canvas has played its own large role in the history of twentieth-century art.--Paul Di Filippo
Overview
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’ Postcards traces the origin of artists’ fascination with postcards from the early 1900s but with a focus on the contemporary, revealing the significant number of artists who have made ...