Clemente Padin & Cesar Figueiredo.
Champion of Liberty.
Montevideo, Uruguay/ Brazil: Clemente Padin/69 Analgesic Books, 1995.
Staple-bound softcover.
16 pages.
Edition of 69.
English.
Near fine.
Book is clean.
Type-written letter has middle horizontal crease and light soiling. Original mailed envelope with mail artist John Held Jr.'s type-written address has stamped return address, postage stamps, and creasing.
Champion of Liberty is a satirical Anti-USA, Anti-War, Anti-Violence artists' book collaboration between Clemente Padin & Cesar Figueiredo composed of edited copy art. Padin's rubber stamp to inside cover, Figueiredo's to back inside cover along with the publisher's stamp.
Original mailing envelope for letter and book is included.
César Figueiredo is a Brazilian publisher, poet, and mail artist.
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.
