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Index: David Zack

Biography

David Zack was born in New Orleans, June 12, 1938. He received his Canadian Landed Immigrant status in 1970. He studied humanities at the University of Chicago (B.A., M.A., 1959) and sociology at Cambridge University (1961-62).

David Zack was also a professional art writer/critic in the 1960s and 1970s. His articles were published in Art and Artists, Artforum, Art News, Arts West, etc. His article “On the Phenomenon of Mail Art”, published in Art in America in 1973, was of special importance. With this article Zack made the term “Mail Art”, coined by Poinsot, known to a wider audience.

He devoted the rest of his life to Mail Art, and is best known for inventing the Monty Cantsin Open-Pop-Star project together with Maris Kundzins and Istvan Kantor. Zack also got involved with Neoism in the early 1980s and remained an active Neoist until his death.

He had solo exhibitions in Geneva, Switzerland (1974), organized by John Armleder and in Budapest, Hungary (1976), curated by Laszlo Beke. He also took part in countless Mail Art exhibitions all around the world.

Zack was known as a fanatic of William Blake’s work and he often identified himself as The Wizard of OZ and signed his letters as Nazario Monty Cantsin Zarathanustra.
David died in Texas, in 1995.

Literature (selection)

Zack, David: “An Authentic and Historical Discourse on the Phenomenon of Mail Art”, Art in America, 01/02 1973.

Links

Mail Artists Index: http://mailartists.wordpress.com/2010/04/19/david-zack/

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S 1971 12 00 zack 001
1971-12-00
A plea for insanity, 0013
David Zack
S 1975 05 00 zack 001
1975-05-00
Attack of the Wild Indians
David Zack
S 1975 08 18 zack 001
1975-08-18
Postcard from Zack, 0013
David Zack
S 1976 03 02 zack 001
1976-03-02
A tenor guitar-song solo performance by david zack
David Zack
S 1977 12 03 zack 001
1977-12-03
Change the Whirl?
David Zack
S 1978 03 18 zack 001
1978-03-18
The In Communicator
David Zack
S 1978 10 23 zack 001
1978-10-23
Letter from Zack
David Zack
S 1979 00 00 zack don dorais manus no 2 001
1979-00-00
They Called Them Thieves
David Zack
S 1974 00 00 zack 001
1974-00-00
Silton Times!, 0004, 0013
David Zack
S 1975 05 14 zack 001
1975-05-14
Artist Text, Letter to Zack from Rose Rieb
David Zack
S 1975 10 30 zack 001
1975-10-30
Art Cause Co
David Zack
S 1976 04 03 zack 001
1976-04-03
Letter from Zack
David Zack
S 1978 00 00 zack sydney concealed 001
1978-00-00
Sydney Concealed
David Zack
S 1978 06 09 zack 001
1978-06-09
We are here
David Zack
S 1978 11 14 zack 001
1978-11-14
Letter to Lomholt
David Zack
S 1979 01 07 zack 001
1979-01-07
Zack Letter to Stephanie, 0013
David Zack
S 1974 08 09 zack 001
1974-08-09
Quickkopy Mail Art
David Zack
S 1975 05 15 zack 001
1975-05-15
Letter from Zack
David Zack
S 1976 00 00 zack 001
1976-00-00
Poison Proof Your Home
David Zack
S 1976 05 00 zack 001
1976-05-00
Art Cause Co, 0013
David Zack
S 1978 01 11 zack two circle formular 001
1978-01-11
Two-Circle Formular
David Zack
S 1978 08 03 zack 001
1978-08-03
Letter from Zack
David Zack
S 1978 12 16 zack 001
1978-12-16
Dreaming of philosophy
David Zack
S 1979 01 14 zack 001
1979-01-14
Letter from Zack
David Zack
S 1974 10 15 zack 001
1974-10-15
Letter from Zack
David Zack
S 1975 07 26 zack 001
1975-07-26
Postcard from Zack
David Zack
S 1976 01 22 zack 001
1976-01-22
Art Cause Co
David Zack
S 1976 06 18 zack 001
1976-06-18
Letter from Zack
David Zack
S 1978 01 14 zack 001
1978-01-14
Twenty-One Correspondence Palimpsests, 0013
David Zack
S 1978 09 18 zack 001
1978-09-18
Between two notes
David Zack
S 1978 12 26 zack 001
1978-12-26
Destroy all pods! Postcard from Ackerman
David Zack
S 1979 01 19 zack 001
1979-01-19
Letter from Zack
David Zack
S 1975 02 06 zack 001
1975-02-06
Letter from Zack
David Zack
S 1975 08 01 zack 001
1975-08-01
Spade 3, Postcard to Thomas Cassidy
David Zack
S 1976 01 31 zack 001
1976-01-31
Formular Art, 0013
David Zack
S 1977 11 03 zack 001
1977-11-03
Change the Whirl?
David Zack
S 1978 02 00 zack 001
1978-02-00
Files from the Byrd Show
David Zack
S 1978 09 30 zack 001
1978-09-30
Letter from Zack
David Zack
S 1979 00 00 zack 001
1979-00-00
Zack no 1
David Zack
S 1979 01 31 zack 001
1979-01-31
Through a window - what?
David Zack
S 1975 04 19 zack 001
1975-04-19
David Zack & Nut(t) Art, 0013
David Zack
S 1975 08 05 zack 001
1975-08-05
Diamond Queen, Postcard to G Nelson
David Zack
S 1976 02 10 zack 001
1976-02-10
A change is as good as a rest
David Zack
S 1977 11 17 zack 001
1977-11-17
The Missing Peace?
David Zack
S 1978 03 16 zack 001
1978-03-16
The In Communicator
David Zack
S 1978 10 09 zack lomholt 001
1978-10-09
Letter from Lomholt
David Zack
S 1979 00 00 zack don dorais manus no 1 001
1979-00-00
Random Ravings
David Zack
S 1979 02 00 zack 001
1979-02-00
Text, introduction, David Zack
David Zack