{"id":12510,"date":"2014-11-06T15:36:50","date_gmt":"2014-11-06T15:36:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/bookshop\/?product=genesis-p-orridge-g-p-o-versus-g-p-o-a-chronicle-of-mail-art-on-trial"},"modified":"2019-04-17T18:38:37","modified_gmt":"2019-04-17T18:38:37","slug":"genesis-p-orridge-g-p-o-versus-g-p-o-a-chronicle-of-mail-art-on-trial","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/bookshop\/catalog\/genesis-p-orridge-g-p-o-versus-g-p-o-a-chronicle-of-mail-art-on-trial\/","title":{"rendered":"Genesis P-Orridge: G.P.O. versus G.P-O: A Chronicle of Mail Art on Trial"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>G.P.O. versus G.P-O: A Chronicle of Mail Art on Trial gathers a collection of materials from the archives of the legendary artist and musician Genesis P-Orridge (born 1950) relating to a unique legal battle: Great Britain&#8217;s General Post Office&#8217;s 1975 case against P-Orridge for disseminating pornographic postcards through the mail. These postcards collaged imagery from hardcore pornographic magazines onto pictures of Queen Elizabeth II. When the Post Office launched their case against P-Orridge, he seized the opportunity to turn the case into another performance, disseminating further mail art (including invitations to the trial) and recruiting the support of the international mail-art community. The case was ultimately dismissed. A reprint of Ecart Publications&#8217; 1976 edition, G.P.O. versus G.P-O collects ephemera, legal documents, correspondence and articles about the case and P-Orridge&#8217;s mail art practice with Cosi Fanni Tutti as COUM Transmissions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>G.P.O. versus G.P-O: A Chronicle of Mail Art on Trial gathers a collection of materials from the archives of the legendary artist and musician Genesis P-Orridge (born 1950) relating to a unique legal battle: Great Britain&#8217;s General Post Office&#8217;s 1975 case against P-Orridge for disseminating pornographic postcards through the mail. These postcards collaged imagery from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":[],"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[54],"product_tag":[],"class_list":["post-12510","product","type-product","status-publish","product_cat-modernism-contemporary","first","outofstock","taxable","shipping-taxable","purchasable","product-type-simple"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/bookshop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/12510","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/bookshop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/bookshop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/product"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/bookshop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product_brand","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/bookshop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_brand?post=12510"},{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/bookshop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat?post=12510"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/bookshop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_tag?post=12510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}