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Mail Art: Martina and Steffen Giersch, Dresden, East Germany to Vagrich Bakhchanyan, New York, New York
Part of: i. Mail Art
Rare Books & Special Collections, Hesburgh Libraries
Cover ornamented with rubber stamp in red ink: sender's return address. Rubber stamp in green ink: bicycle. Rubber stamp in blue ink: "2". Postcard enclosed. Two postcards sewn together with red thread. Torn newsprint sewn on front. Doctored photograph of a headless body and head wrapped in newspaper on front, photograph of the Giersches working in a derelict building on reverse. Rubber stamps in red ink: "Mail-Art-Studio", sender's return address, "P.F. Please write me", "82", "Auch 1982 nicht den Kopf verlieren" (don't lose your head in 1982). Signed by artists in blue ink.