Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction / Victor Brand -- Ray Johnson : a book about death / William S. Wilson -- Artists as magazinists / Clive Phillpot -- Special delivery : mail as metaphor / Nancy Princenthal -- A conversation with Collier Schorr / Gil Blank -- 0 to 9 (Vito Acconci & Bernadette Mayer) -- 12 postkarten (Hans-Peter Feldmann) -- 100 boots (Eleanor Antin) -- Amokkoma (K. Baumgartner, C. Höller, J. Schröder, D. Castro) -- APB (Terence Koh) -- Art for um (Buster Cleveland) -- Art-language (Art & Language) -- Artpolice (Frank Gaard and the Artpolice) -- The balloon newspaper (Futzie Nutzle, Spinny Walker, Henry humble) -- The BANK (BANK) -- A book about death (Ray Johnson) -- C comics (Joe Brainard) -- Continuous project (Continuous Project) -- Control magazine (Stephen Willats) -- Culture hero (Les Levine) -- Dé-coll/age (Wolf Vostell) -- Diagonal cero (Edgardo Antonio Vigo) -- Donald Parsnips daily journal (Adam Dant) -- FAT (Josephine Meckseper) -- FILE megazine (General Idea) -- Fluxus [year boxes]/cc V tre (George Maciunas) -- Food novels (Martha Rosler) -- Gesammelte werke (Dieter Roth) -- J.D.s (Bruce LaBruce & G.B. Jones) -- Just another asshole (Barbara Ess) -- K48 (Scott Hug) -- Kiroku (Daido Moriyama) -- KWY (R. Bertholo, Christo, L. Castro, J. Voss) -- Landslide (William Leavitt & Bas Jan Ader) -- The limericks/The red boxers (Gilbert & George) -- Living & loving (Aleksandra Mir) -- LTTR (LTTR) -- Mail order art (Patricia Tavenner) -- material (Daniel Spoerri) -- Mèla (Maurizio Nannucci) -- North Drive Press (Matt Keegan & S.G. Rafferty) -- Revue nul/Integration (Herman de Vries) -- Nutsy's (Tom Sachs) -- Ohio (Uschi Huber & Jörg Paul Janka) -- Periodical (Robert Heinecken) -- Permanent food (Maurizio Cattelan & Paola Manfrin) -- Poor. Old. Tired. Horse. (Ian Hamilton Finlay) -- PROVOKE (Provoke Group) -- Saddlesore/Last week in the project space/Everyday hiking (Lisa Anne Auerbach) -- Die Schastrommel/Die Drossel (Günter Brus) -- Semina (Wallace Berman) -- The situationist times (Jacqueline de Jong) -- SLUTS (Matthias Herrmann) -- SPUR (Gruppe SPUR) -- This is the Salvation Army (Scott Treleaven) -- To place (Roni Horn) -- Tripping corpse (Raymond Pettibon) -- VILE (Anna Banana & William Gagilone) -- vision (Tom Marioni) -- Zerokkusu Shashincho (Nobuyoshi Araki).