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MELA: APERIODICO SCRITTURA ED IMMAGINI # 5 (ESTATE / AUTUNNO 1981)
(MELA). Isola d'Elba, Marciana & Maurizio Nannucci. Florence, ITALY: Biancoenero Edizioni D'Arte, 1981. First Edition 1/550. Small 4to. Folded Tabloid-Format Wrappers. Art Periodical. Fine.. One 39 x 26 ¾" heavy newsprint sheet printed recto and verso, neatly folded in sixteen. Text primarily in English with some Italian. Published annually between 1976 and 1981, "Mela" was a compendium of original submissions solicited by Italian artist Maurizio Nannucci from a stellar array of Conceptual, Fluxus and language-based artists from around the world. Each piece takes the form of one of thirty-two individual tabloid-style pages per issue. The contributors to this fifth - and final - installment from 1981 are Markus Raetz, Alison Knowles, Claudio Costa, Robert Filliou, John Hilliard, Erik Dietman, Stano Filko, Philip Corner, Jackson Mac Low, Jan Voss, Dick Higgins, Dieter Roth, Piotr Kowalski, Per Kirkeby, Brion Gysin, Tom Marioni, Paolo Masi, Enzo Cucchi, Kathy Acker, Lapo Binazzi, Roberta Allen, Giuseppi Chiari, Maurizio Benveduti, and Tulio Catalano, Helgi Borgils Fridjonsson, Renato Ranaldi, Eric Anderson and Knud Pederson, Carmelo Romero, and Antonio Violetta. A bright white, well-preserved example of this uncommon item limited to five hundred and fifty copies. Inventory Number: 025916