Leonhard Frank

Mail Art Exhibited at Phoenix Art Museum, Beginning Today

Mail art has a rich and varied history in Latin America. “Arte correo” in Spanish (or “arte correio” in Portuguese) began in the region in the mid-1960s with the pioneering efforts of key figures like Edgardo Antonio Vigo, Graciela Gutiérrez-Marx and León Ferrari in Argentina; Clemente Padín in Uruguay; Guillermo Deisler in Chile (and later Bulgaria); Dámaso Ogaz in Venezuela; Manuel Marín, Pedro Friedeberg and Felipe Ehrenberg in Mexico; and Leonhard Frank Duch, Unhandeijara Lisboa and Paulo Bruscky in Brazil.

Mail Art Exhibited at Phoenix Art Museum, 10/1; Upcoming Programs Also Announced

Mail art has a rich and varied history in Latin America. “Arte correo” in Spanish (or “arte correio” in Portuguese) began in the region in the mid-1960s with the pioneering efforts of key figures like Edgardo Antonio Vigo, Graciela Gutiérrez-Marx and León Ferrari in Argentina; Clemente Padín in Uruguay; Guillermo Deisler in Chile (and later Bulgaria); Dámaso Ogaz in Venezuela; Manuel Marín, Pedro Friedeberg and Felipe Ehrenberg in Mexico; and Leonhard Frank Duch, Unhandeijara Lisboa and Paulo Bruscky in Brazil.