Mail art no. 130
![A hand-lettered mail-art piece on a white envelope, bordered by thick green horizontal and vertical marker lines forming bands. In bold pink marker is written "mail-art is just a big back and forth without [unclear]". The paper shows fold creases and slight wear. A small handwritten signature appears in the lower right corner.](https://digital.lib.buffalo.edu/files/original/29d49134dea4dda582feb5feb3606f22.jpg "LIB-PC001-130a.jpg")
Title
Mail art no. 130
Subject
mail art
Description
Two-sided paper envelope mail art piece with inserts created by Hans Ruedi Fricker. It consists of a white paper mailing envelope decorated on front with rubber stamp ink, sticker labels, and foreign postage stamps. The back is colored with green and purple marker. The interior pages of this mail art piece contains a black-and-white mail-art collage composed of cut-and-pasted text fragments in English and German on a textured gray background. The collage advertises a mail-art show and “artistic activities in the countryside,” includes a typed call for artists from H. R. Fricker in Switzerland, and features a torn photographic image of a mountain ridge. Below is a framed historical photograph showing a group of men standing at a rocky mountainside. There are faint handwritten pencil notes in the upper left thanking the recipient for a letter. The last page of this mail art piece is a typewritten "letter" with the phrase "Just such another letter." repeated across the entire page. Mail art recipient: Daniel Mark Graham.
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Creator
Fricker, H. R. (Hans-Ruedi)
Source
State University of New York at Buffalo. Poetry Collection
Publisher
State University of New York at Buffalo. University Libraries
Date
1980-1989?
Contributor
Basinski, Michael
Graham, Daniel Mark
Rights
IN COPYRIGHT. This Item is protected by copyright and/or related rights. You are free to use this Item in any way that is permitted by the copyright and related rights legislation that applies to your use. For other uses you need to obtain permission from the rights-holder(s). Contact the Poetry Collection for more information.
Format
image/jpeg
Language
eng
Type
Image
Text
Identifier
Mail Art The Poetry Collection Box #
MA013
Date Created
2006-03-03
Date Modified
2006-05-26
Is Part Of
Mail art. LIB-PC-001
Extent
12 x 16 cm.
Medium
Paper (Fiber product)
Collection
Citation
Fricker, H. R. (Hans-Ruedi), “Mail art no. 130,” Digital Collections - University at Buffalo Libraries, accessed April 8, 2026, https://digital.lib.buffalo.edu/index.php/items/show/492.