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Vittore Baroni (Editor).Arte Postale! #57:The Box Game.Forte Dei Marmi, Italy: Near The Edge Editions, 1987.Staple-bound softcover. 28 pages including covers + "How To Play" folded-sheet laid in.Edition of 500.Very good. Minor creasing to spine.Arte Postale! #57: The Box Game is an add to and send back issue with illustrations as well as descriptions of works sent back.Illustrations of work by Jean-Luc Andre, Carol Stetser, Kim IL Jung, Arturo Fallico, Saval, Mark Pawson, Yonny & Dolly Zippy, Jean-Pierre Benon, Robin Crozier, Ann Schxnyder, S. Gustav Hagglund, Ruth Wolf-Rehfeldt, Clemente Padin, Jurgen O. Olbrich, JPF Illusion Production, Peter Bergner, Nick, Guy Stuckens, Marcello Diotallevi, Laurance Angelo, Peter Below, Carlo Pittore, Peter Ahlberg, Swarz & Laura Spazio, and Rea Nikonova.Descriptions of work by Osvaldo Ligouri, James Koehnline, Katherine Hirka, Robert C. Morgan, Betty Danon, Mario Giavino, Piotry Rypson, Rod Summers, Cracker Jack, Kum Nam Baik, Patrizia Masnini, Carol Stetser, Gerald Jupitter-Larsen, Robert Swierkiewcz, Francisco Felipe, Walter Rovere, Jenny de Groot, Herbert A. Mayer, Pawel Petasz, Betty Arndt, Brunori and Corsi, Volker Hamann, and Charles Francois.ARTE POSTALE! POSTAL ART! (1979-2009) A Mail Art Magazineby Vittore BaroniThe idea of creating a magazine entirely dedicated to mail art came to me in 1979, two years after my first contact with the world of mail art, thanks to a chance encounter with the renowned collector and mail artist Guglielmo Achille Cavellini. I called my self-published periodical simply Postal Art!, with an exclamation point at the end to indicate the exuberance and warmth of the "Eternal Network" (as Fluxus artist Robert Filliou had christened the rapidly developing creative network), a friendly and open circle of authors committed to the free exchange of all kinds of ideas and works, transcending racial, ideological, and linguistic differences. A sort of "social network" that anticipated the Internet with the simple use of letters, postcards, and stamps.Over the course of three decades, I published Arte Postale! with highly irregular periodicity and circulation, often adopting different formats and configurations. In the first two years, I managed to maintain an almost monthly cadence, with a somewhat rough cut-and-paste layout, in the vein of the punk fanzines of the late 1970s. Gradually, the releases became less frequent and more complex in structure and packaging. The first fifty issues of Arte Postale! were produced in limited editions of 100 copies, adopting the "assemblage" strategy pioneered in New York by experimental poet Richard Kostelanetz in his seminal publication Assembling: each participant sent one hundred copies of a single page, postcard, artist's stamp, or other contribution. I then collected the materials together with the addition of a cover and some editorial pages. Many issues of the magazine had a dominant theme (music, badges, poetry, stickers, photographs, Neoism, etc.) or were dedicated to individual mail artists, living or dead (Ray Johnson, David Zack, Lon Spiegelman, Piermario Ciani), while other issues had a free theme but required contributions in specific formats (e.g., no. 24 was a special 3D issue, with small objects contained in a cardboard box; no. 49 was dedicated to miniature works, with the small works collected in an audio-cassette case). After no. 50, I stopped the assembly process and usually printed the entire periodical independently, by photocopy or offset, always adding various manual interventions, making each copy a sort of "collector's piece". The print run varied from the single copy of no. 53 (a special issue prepared by Mark Pawson as a tribute to my publication) to the 600 copies of no. 63, containing a 7" vinyl single by the group Le Forbici di Manitù with the anthem of the 1992 Decentralized Networker Congress. Over thirty years, around a thousand authors from sixty countries have participated in the magazine. …