Commonpress Magazine of Art No. 15: Selfportraits
Amsterdam: Stempelplaats, 1979. First edition of 200. Fifty-nine 9.7 x 14.4 cm (3.8 x 5.7") cards rubber stamped on rectos in eight colors on thick card stock housed inside a clear plastic bag.
‘Commonpress Magazine of Art No. 15: Selfportraits,’ guest edited by Aart van Barneveld on the topic of hand stamped self-portraits. With contributions by over fifty artists from Europe, South America, and North America, including Anna Banana, Vittore Baroni, Paulo Bruscky, Ulises Carrión, Buster Cleveland, Robin Crozier, Bob Gaglione, György Galántai, Johan van Geluwe, Michael Gibbs, Klaus Groh, E. F. Higgins, Ko de Jonge, Raul Marroquin, G. E. Marx Vigo, Michele Perfetti, Pawel Petasz, Guy Schraenen, and P. J. Splettstösser among several others. Complete. The international network in card format.
Cards near fine with trace amounts of rubbing to first and last card, including a faint diagonal fold line to last card at upper-left corner, and an area of darkening along top margin. Plastic bag good only with creases and wear, including a closed tear along right margin.
The founding principle of Commonpress encouraged each contributor to edit, print, and distribute a future periodical on a specific theme, thus democratizing the responsibility and ownership of the press. For most issues, Commonpress operated through an international publishing fraternity featuring a different guest editor for each issue. Pawel Petasz edited issue No. 1 in Poland in 1977, and subsequent editors included Ko de Jonge, Peter Below, Ulises Carrión, Adriano Spatola and Giulia Niccolai, Klaus Groh, Aart van Barneveld, Guy Schraenen, G. E. Marx Vigo, Vittore Baroni, Johan van Geluwe, György Galántai and Júlia Klaniczay, and Guy Bleus among several others. Item #965
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