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      The Paradoxes of Mail Art: How to Build an Artistic Media Type

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      CULTURA
      Peter Lang GmbH
      Mail Art, intermediality, paradox, network, aesthetics, democracy, transnationality

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          This article aims to show that so-called Mail Art (art distributed via the international postal system) is based on five paradoxes. These paradoxes, which correlate to how Mail Art is distributed and exhibited by means of changing technologies, its aesthetics, its democratic ideals, and its transnational character, explain how Mail Art has emerged and been constructed as an artistic medium on the stage of world cultures. While the paradoxes of Mail Art are specific for this particular medium, I argue that all media types are more or less marked by inherent paradoxes. The fact that Mail Art includes all kinds of material, sensorial, spatiotemporal, and semiotic modes makes it an unusual art form, but here it is primarily meant to be an example of the ambiguous ways in which media types in general are delimited and defined.

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                Author and article information

                Journal
                CUL
                CULTURA
                Peter Lang GmbH
                1584-1057
                2065-5002
                2012
                : 9
                : 2
                : 103-122
                Affiliations
                School of Language and Literature, Linnaeus University 351 95 Växjö, Sweden lars.ellestrom@ 123456lnu.se
                Article
                10.5840/cultura2012928
                25e943d5-9b28-4cb7-acbb-01004d2c777b
                © Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften, Frankfurt am Main 2012
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                Pages: 20

                Philosophy of culture
                Mail Art,intermediality,paradox,network,aesthetics,democracy,transnationality
                Philosophy of culture
                Mail Art, intermediality, paradox, network, aesthetics, democracy, transnationality

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