Comprehensive book on artist designed exhibition postcards from pre-1945 to 2012. Includes cards issued by Specific Object and over 100 artists. "With hundreds of images of postcards created by many well-known artists, Artists' Postcards is the first critical guide to the subject. From the Surrealists to Fluxus and Conceptual artists, this book includes an array of historical and contemporary postcards by such artists as George Grosz, Bruce Nauman, Richard Long, David Hockney, Richard Hamilton, Susan Hiller, Joseph Beuys, Ben Vautier, Dieter Roth, Ray Johnson, Gordon Matta-Clark, Gavin Turk, Tacita Dean, Gilbert & George and Rachel Whiteread. Artists' Postcards will be of great interest to artists and graphic designers, as well as to postcard collectors." -- from dust-jacket's interior flap.