The World Exists to Be Put on a Postcard: Artists' Postcards from 1960 to Now

by Jeremy Cooper

The accessibility and familiarity of a postcard makes it an artistic medium rich with potential for subversion, appropriation, or manipulation for political, satirical, revolutionary, or playful intent. The inexpensiveness of production encourages artists to experiment with their design; the only artistic restriction: that it fits through the mailbox slot. Unlike traditional works of art, the postcard requires nothing more than a stamp for it to...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0500480435
• ISBN13: 9780500480434
• Release Date: April 2019
• Publisher: Thames & Hudson
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 8.7" x 8.7"