Ladra, Antonio & Padin, Clemente - Por La Vida y Por La Paz, Accion Por Chile pamphlet with laid in essay by Padin & two-page photocopy of La Revista de AEBU featuring article mentioning Ladra & Padin with Original Mailing Envelope (Signed) (1987)
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Antonio Ladra & Clemente Padín.
Por La Vida y Por La Paz, Accion Por Chile pamphlet with laid in essay by Padin & two-page photocopy of La Revista de AEBU featuring article mentioning Ladra & Padin with Original Mailing Envelope.
Montevideo, Uruguay: Antonio Ladra / Clemente Padin, 1987.
Staple-bound softcover & unbound sheets.
16 pages, 1 folded sheet with laid in double-sided sheet, two folded sheets.
Spanish and English. .
16 pages, 1 folded sheet with laid in double-sided sheet, two folded sheets.
Spanish and English. .
Very good.
Slight edgewear.
Slight edgewear.
Original mailing envelope has minor creasing. Ladra's address stamp to back with handwritten John Held Jr address and postal stamps on front. Ladra has highlighted his name on cover of "Por La Vida y Por La Paz" as well as his assistance credit inside and on photocopy article.
1. Por la Vida y Por la Paz / For Life & For Peace was a 1987 action by Clemente Padín denouncing the disappearance of political prisoners documented in this 16 artists' book with text and 11 photo-illustrations by Jorge Caraballo.
2. Accion Por Chile was a protest artwork by Antonio Ladra conducted in the street in Montevideo, Uruguay September 11th, 1987 documented in this 4 page book with two photographs, text, and a laid-in essay by Clemente Padin. Conducted with support from Uruguaya de Artistas Correo / Uruguayan Mail Artists Association.
3. Two-page photocopy. The first page is the front cover of an issue of La Revista de AEBU and the second page is an article titled Exposición Internacional de Arte Correo.
A Uruguayan artist, poet, and publisher, Padin edited the influential literary magazines Los Huevos del Plata and OVUM 10 which put him in contact with the international avant garde. A participant in mail art, his artistic and political endeavors landed him in jail in the late '70s and surveilled upon release til the mid '80s, deemed a threat by Uruguay's military dictatorship.
OCLC -
Por La Vida y Por La Paz: MOMA, The Getty, and The Tate.
Other pieces are not present in OCLC.