Product Description

World Art Post. Budapest: Artpool, no date [1982]

Exhibition catalogue

36 sheets: (printed acetate title) + 1 illustration sheet + 11 pages (=6 sheets) + 1 sheet tissue paper + 27 illustration sheets) + printed acetate back cover. Stapled 3 times with aluminum strip folded over the staples

11 5/8 x 8 3/16″ / 29.5 x 20.7 cm

Texts by Peter Frank, E.F. Higgins III, and Rudolf Ungváry (2 text figures and 3 illustrations); bibliography; list of 417 participants by country; 646 images of stamps on 27 sheets; untitled text by György Gálantai printed on acentate back cover

Verso of back cover: Inscribed in blue marker “For (participating artist’s name) G. Gálantai”; blue Artpool “Life” stamp; J. & G. Gálantai and hand stamps with “1/1” in blue marker in center of the second

Loosely laid-in: An hexagonal folded sheet (Artpool’s Ray Johnson Space) inscribed “please add to and return to” in blue ink by Ray Johnson; “Jön……” (photocopy); an unprinted sheet of white paper with curving mark in one of its corners

A few small pieces of aluminum strip missing at fold

Added:
To his copy the artist has added a flyer calling for contribution to Commonpress 51 inscribed “sent” with title and date of his piece, iniatled and dated, and with a tipped-in Berlin postal registration receipt

And:
An undated letter (circa 70 words) from Julia Gálantai: requests a copy of the artist’s catalogue of his 1980 DAAD, Berlin, exhibition. Hopes he will participate in future Commonpress issues