Description
San Francisco, Stamp Art Gallery/stampart editions, 1995
Black plastic spiral ring binding, 28 x 23 cm, unpaginated, illustrated throughout in color and black and white. English.
Rare portfolio published by the San Fransico Stamp Art Gallery in an edition of 50 numbered copies, this being nr. 42. Numbered in pencil on a sheet of fluxus west cinderella stamps. Numbered 42/50 once more on the back of the fourth page in red pen and signed Gagleone (aka Bill Gaglione, the curator of Stamp Art Gallery).
With the introductory essay Learning from Friedman. Ken Friedman’s Rubber Stamp Activity by John Held. Followed by a 16 page text on the history of stamp art by Ken Friedman and George M. Gugelberger and the text Ken Friedman’s stamp work 1956-1976 by Albert Philips. Ca. 50 pages of photocopies of stamps and Friedman’s Rubber Stamp Archive. Last page a beautiful foldout page on green paper with more examples of stamps.
A photocopy exhibition of Ken Friedmans fluxus rubber stamps was displayed at Stamp Art Gallery 466 8th street San Fransisco Ca. 944103 4 – 29 November 1995. Thanks to John Held jr., George M. Gugelberger , Albert Philips, Jon Hendricks, Aart van Barneveld, Charlotte Elisner and a special thanks to Estera Milman, the director of Alternative Traditions in Contemprary Arts at the university of Iowa museum of Art, for all the help in producing this catalog. Concept: Gaglione. Publisher: Domel. Editors: Dadaland, Held, Mars.
Rare. Three institutional holdings located at the School of The Art Institute of Chicago/John M Flaxman Library, MOMA and SFMOMA library.
Upper edge foxed, showing up at some pages, but not disturbing. Else A good copy.
