Robin Crozier. Large collection of Mail Art projects, 1979 - 1983
Crozier (1936-2001) is regarded as one of the most significant British Mail Artists. Includes: (1) Views never compiled and edited by Robin Crozier. Sunderland, self-published, 1983. A4 portfolio containing an introduction and 50 loose stencilled sheets with artists' contributions in response to Crozier's request for 'a view'. Made in an edition of 60.
(2) A letter to Carl Loeffler. Stencilled handwritten letter dated 7:5:81, 20 pp. Features Crozier's reply to Loeffler’s question to send some ‘overview type stuff for the Book on Correspondence Art’. Robin Crozier took it all the way, listing his enormous network of correspondence artists in alphabetical order, interwoven with spicy comments, in one sentence lasting 20 pages. (3) Original letter to Peter van Beveren December 1980 including a sketch for the publication 'The Archives', published in 1981. (4) Original signed collage 'Sand' mailed to Van Beveren. (5-13) Approx. 9 more mail art projects, such as Catalogue of the Slide Collection, Dear Friends 2:1:79, Arts Day celebration and My Fingerprint. (14) Added is the artists' book/mail art assembling project 'Portrait of Robin Crozier' published by Ceolfrith Press, Sunderland (UK), 1975. Softcover, 19 x 19 cm, unpaginated, some pages are loose (as usual with this item). (total approx. 13)