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Mail art by György Galántai, 1981. Mail art, also known as postal art and correspondence art, is an artistic movement centered on sending small-scale works through the postal service. It developed out of what eventually became Ray Johnson's New York Correspondence School and the Fluxus movements of the 1960s. It has since developed into a ...
Receiving a wedding invitation does not obligate the recipient either to attend the wedding or to send a gift. [11] A proper response is written on the recipient's normal stationery, following the form of the invitation. For example, if the invitation uses formal, third-person language, then the recipient replies in formal, third-person ...
Postcards document the natural landscape as well as the built environment—buildings, gardens, parks, cemeteries, and tourist sites. They provide snapshots of societies at a time when few newspapers carried images. [16] Postcards provided a way for the general public to keep in touch with their friends and family, and required little writing. [16]
PostSecret inspired another collaborative art project Snail Mail My Email, where volunteers handwrite strangers' emails and send physical letters to the intended recipients, free of charge. [17] From August 3, 2015 to September 2017, an exhibit [18] at the National Postal Museum features more than 500 postcards submitted to PostSecret.
"Greetings from Chicago, Illinois" large-letter postcard produced by Curt Teich The history of postcards is part of the cultural history of the United States. Especially after 1900, "the postcard was wildly successful both as correspondence and collectible" and thus postcards are valuable sources for cultural historians as both a form of epistolary literature and for the bank of cultural ...
Pages in category "Postcard artists" The following 55 pages are in this category, out of 55 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A. Allen's of Tenby;
A best man and a maid of honour with newlyweds. The best man is the chief assistant to the groom at a wedding. While the role is older, the earliest surviving written use of the term best man comes from 1782, observing that "best man and best maid" in the Scottish dialect are equivalent to "bride-man and bride-maid" in England.
Donald Fraser Gould McGill (28 January 1875 – 13 October 1962) was an English graphic artist whose name has become synonymous with the genre of saucy postcards, particularly associated with the seaside (though they were sold throughout the UK).