Customer Reviews

Rubber Soul: Rubber Stamps and Correspondence Art (Folk Art and Artist Series)

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I enjoyed this book tremendously. From its Dada cover, to its scores of wonderful illustrations inside, I loved it. Before reading this book, I hadn't understood the folk art aspect of the rubber stamp genre; now I do. Rubber Soul also includes a collection of correspondence art, with its colorful rubber stamp and collage-like effects. I found the images and the text of this book fascinating, a window into other people's creative and personal lives. A treasure.

This book focuses on correspondance artists and their personal methods and motivations. While not a how-to book (it never pretends to be), I found it to be well-written and informative. The pieces featured in the book are stunning.

A large portion of this fun book is dedicated to photos of the artists' works and these really give you a feel for the unusual art they've invented for themselves. The plates could have benefited from being more integrated into the narrative about the artists, but I can't complain about the sheer volume of photos and examples.

I'm not sure why another reviewer expected a how-to from a book in a folk art series from an academic publisher, because that's obviously not the goal of this book. Instead, it's a careful study of a group of artists who really love their art. I'd recommend it to anyone interested in rubber stamping, crafts, and mail art.

This is an extremely thin little book. The largest portion of the book is narrative, history, philosophy, "he said" and "she said". Color plates are included almost as an afterthought - very few of the illustrations bore any obvious relationship to creating correspondance art. Not useful in my fairly large library, returned the book.

I bought this book as soon as I heard about it. I liked the story of the correspondents who almost competed with each other to produce interesting art to mail to their friends. Full of interesting characters.

Not much of a book here. Seems that it was only published so the individuals featured could buy a copy. As for it being about 'mail art', it's not. Not if you mean in reference to artists known for the process. Basically, it a competent group of hobbists that got a buddy at the university to publish a book of their stuff. Of no interest to anyone not personally connected.