Commonpress 51: Hungary
by ARTPOOL, editor
Multi-colored illus. Unpaginated. 4to, color pictorial cover, staple-bound. Budapest: [1989].
Scarce and intricately produced issue of the mail art periodical Commonpress. This is the second version from 1989 (edition of 300), not the original 1984 photocopied publication. The exhibition which both document, Hungary Can Be Yours/International Hungary (27 January 1984), was almost immediately closed down by authorities and they increased surveillance on Galantai and other members of the artist-run space Artpool. Only in 1989 was Artpool able (truncated)
Scarce and intricately produced issue of the mail art periodical Commonpress. This is the second version from 1989 (edition of 300), not the original 1984 photocopied publication. The exhibition which both document, Hungary Can Be Yours/International Hungary (27 January 1984), was almost immediately closed down by authorities and they increased surveillance on Galantai and other members of the artist-run space Artpool. Only in 1989 was Artpool able (truncated)
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